28,132 Passwords From the silveragecomics.com Leak Hit the Dark Web

HEROIC analysts identified a combolist file labeled “silveragecomics.com” that was uploaded to a Telegram channel on 10 September 2023. The file contains 28,132 records made up of email addresses paired with plaintext passwords, along with the URLs of the sites or services those credentials belonged to.

Why This Is Dangerous

Because the passwords in this file are stored in plaintext, anyone who downloads it can read the credentials instantly, no cracking or decryption required. An attacker can plug these email and password pairs directly into login pages across the web and see which ones still work. If even a small percentage of the 28,132 entries reuse the same password elsewhere, that is enough to break into other accounts belonging to the same people.

What Was Exposed

• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords
• URLs linking each credential pair to the site or service it was used on

Why This Matters

Combolists like this one are the raw material for credential stuffing attacks, where automated tools try leaked email and password pairs against banks, email providers, and social media platforms in bulk. Because so many people reuse passwords across multiple accounts, a single leaked combolist entry can lead to account takeover, identity theft, and financial fraud that has nothing to do with the original site the credentials came from.

How This Combolist Was Built

A combolist is not a single hacked database. It is a compiled collection of email and password pairs pulled from many different sources, older breaches, stealer malware, phishing pages, and stitched together into one file. The silveragecomics.com list follows this pattern: it was assembled and shared on Telegram, where combolists like it circulate freely among people looking for working login credentials to exploit.

Check If You Are Affected

The safest move is to find out whether your own email address appears in this leak or any of the others in HEROIC's database of more than 400 billion breached records. HEROIC's free breach scanner lets you search your email in seconds and see exactly what has been exposed, so you can change the right passwords before someone else uses them first.