The Brazzers Dump Contains 675,901 Exposed Credential Records

Brazzers (brazzers.com) is an adult entertainment website that suffered a database breach in April 2013, exposing 675,901 user accounts. The stolen data includes email addresses, usernames, and passwords stored in plain text. The breach was first disclosed publicly in September 2016 by Vigilante.pw. This breach is verified and sensitive. The plain text password storage is the central security failure: no cracking was required to obtain working credentials from this dataset.

Why Brazzers Breach Is Dangerous

Storing passwords in plain text means that every person who obtained this database had immediatly usable credentials, not hashes that require additional processing. The 675,901 email-password pairs from Brazzers were tested against banking platforms, email services, and social media accounts the moment the data became available. Anyone who used the same password on Brazzers that they used elsewhere had those other accounts exposed without any technical barrier. Plain text password storage in 2013 was already considered inexcusable, and the consequences here are direct and measurable.

What Was Exposed in the Brazzers Leak

• Email Address
• Username
• Password (plain text)

Why This Brazzers Data Puts You at Risk

The exposure of email addresses in the context of a sensitive adult platform creates risks beyond simple credential stuffing. The combination of a real email address with platform context has been used in extortion campaigns where attackers threaten to reveal a person's account registration to their contacts unless payment is made. These attacks do not require the attacker to have any additional information: the email address alone is sufficient to send convincing threats based on the known breach.

Why Plain Text Password Storage Makes This Breach Uniquely Dangerous

Most breaches involve hashed passwords, which require time and computing power to crack. The Brazzers breach occured with passwords stored as plain text, meaning the data was definitly usable the moment it was stolen. No decryption, no cracking, no delay. Security researchers have documented this breach as one of the clearest examples of how the absence of basic password hashing turns a database compromise into an immediate credential attack resource. The September 2016 disclosure by Vigilante.pw confirmed the breach was in active circulation by that point, more than three years after the initial compromise.

Check If Your Data Was Exposed

HEROIC's free breach search checks your email against 400 billion+ compromised records, including the Brazzers dataset. Search now to confirm whether your account was part of this breach. If your email appears in this database, change the password on any account where you used the same credentials and enable two-factor authentication wherever possible.