Search Your Email: The BizBangladesh Breach Exposed 12,902 Accounts With Plaintext Passwords

HEROIC analysts discovered this breach while scanning underground forums where credential datasets from South Asian business platforms had been circulating. In August 2018, BizBangladesh, a B2B business portal and company directory based in Bangladesh, had its database stolen and published online. The breach exposed 12,902 records, each containing an email address and a plaintext password. The dataset was later posted to a prominant hacking forum where it was picked up, shared, and bundled into combolists that are still in circulation today.

Why This Is Dangerous

Plaintext passwords mean every single user in this dataset had their exact login credentials handed over to whoever downloaded the file. B2B portals like BizBangladesh attract business owners, procurement professionals, and company representatives who are likely to reuse passwords across work email accounts, cloud services, and internal business tools. A credential from a small business directory breach can become a key into a corporate network if the victim used the same password at work.

What Was Exposed

• Email addresses (12,902 unique accounts)
• Plaintext passwords (fully readable, no encryption or hashing)
• Source: Database export shared as a combolist on hacking forums
• Date leaked: August 21, 2018
• Country: Bangladesh

Why This Matters

BizBangladesh no longer operates, but the breach data lives on. Nearly 13,000 people had their passwords exposed in plaintext, and that information has been copied, traded, and included in larger combolists hundreds of times since 2018. Credential stuffing attacks do not care wheather a website still exists. They test every email and password pair against active platforms, and users who registered on BizBangladesh years ago and never changed that password elsewhere remain vulnerable right now.

How Credential Stuffing Attacks Work

Credential stuffing is an automated attack where criminals take a list of stolen usernames and passwords and test them against other websites using bots. The attack works because a large percentage of people reuse the same password across multiple accounts. When a dataset like the BizBangladesh breach is published, criminals run it through tools that automatically submit each email and password pair to login pages on popular platforms, social media sites, online retailers, and banking portals. If even one in twenty attempts succeeds, a dataset of 12,902 records can yield hundreds of compromised accounts in a single automated run.

Check If You Are Affected

If you ever registered on BizBangladesh or the domain bizbangladesh.com, your email address and password are likely included in this dataset. HEROIC offers a completely free breach scanner that searches more than 400 billion compromised records from thousands of known data breaches around the world. Enter your email and find out in seconds exactly which breaches have exposed your information. Search your email at HEROIC's free breach scanner and see whether your credentials are at risk today.