Birds Adirondack Real Estate Breach Contains Exactly 8,818 Email and Password Pairs

HEROIC analysts discovered this breach while reviewing credential datasets posted to underground hacking forums. In August 2018, Birds Adirondack Real Estate, a U.S.-based real estate company specializing in Adirondack properties, had its user database compromised and dumped. A total of 8,818 records were exposed, each containing an email address and a plaintext password. The dataset surfaced on a popular hacking forum, making it freely accessable to anyone who knew where to look.

Why This Is Dangerous

Plaintext passwords eliminate every layer of protection that normally stands between a thief and a working login. When a company hashes passwords correctly, stolen data still requires significant computational work to become usable. Birds Adirondack Real Estate offered no such protection. Every one of the 8,818 passwords in this dataset was readable on arrival, ready to be plugged into credential stuffing tools that can test them against Gmail, banks, and corporate systems automatically.

What Was Exposed

• Email addresses (8,818 unique accounts)
• Plaintext passwords (unencrypted, fully readable)
• Source: Database and combolist export
• Date leaked: August 21, 2018
• Country: United States

Why This Matters

The age of a breach does not neutralize its risk. Attackers maintain and share these datasets for years, continuously cycling them through new credential stuffing campaigns. If you registered on birdsadkrealestate.com before August 2018 and used the same password on any other site, that account may still be at risk. People rarely change passwords unless forced to, which is exactly why hackers keep using old breach data to break into accounts that have nothing to do with the original victim company.

How Plaintext Password Breaches Work

When a company stores passwords in plaintext, it means the exact characters you type are saved directly into a database column with no transformation. If an attacker gains access to that database through a SQL injection flaw, a compromised admin account, or a misconfigured backup file, they walk away with a ready-to-use list of working credentials. These credentials are then sorted by email domain, cleaned up, and uploaded to hacking forums as combolists. Other criminals download them and run them through automated tools that test the credentials against hundreds of websites simultaniously, looking for matches.

Check If You Are Affected

If you ever had an account on Birds Adirondack Real Estate or birdsadkrealestate.com, your email and password are likely in this dataset. HEROIC's free breach scanner searches over 400 billion compromised records, including this breach and thousands more, to tell you exactly what information about you has been exposed online. Run a free check at HEROIC's breach scanner and find out in seconds whether your credentials have been compromised.