Dark Web Intel: 2.3 Million Credentials From the Satanic 10M ULP Sept #8 Dump

HEROIC analysts tracked a threat actor known as "Satanic" operating on BreachForums who has been releasing a sustained series of large credential dumps throughout September 2024. The eighth installment in this series, titled "Private Satanic 10M ULP Sept #8," was posted on September 4, 2024 and exposed 2,366,559 unique email addresses paired with plaintext passwords and homepage URLs. This release is part of a ten-part campaign by the same actor, representing one of the more prolific credential dump operations tracked on the platform that month. For the full scope of this series, see the related parts listed below.

The presence of plaintext passwords in this dump means the credentials require no decryption or cracking before use. Attackers can immediately load these email-password pairs into automated credential stuffing tools and begin testing them across hundreds of websites and services. The homepage URLs included in each record reveal which specific services were targeted by the stealer malware, allowing attackers to prioritize the most valuable accounts first.

What Was Exposed

• Email Address
• Plaintext Password
• HomePage URL

Why This Matters

A dump of 2.3 million plaintext credentials is a ready-made toolkit for account takeover. Credential stuffing is highly automated: attackers run these pairs against email providers, online banking, social media, and e-commerce platforms within hours of a dump being posted. Users who reuse passwords across multiple accounts face cascading compromise. Once an email account is taken over, attackers use it to trigger password resets on financial and other sensitive accounts, compounding the damage. This series of releases by the same actor suggests an organized, sustained operation rather than a one-time event, indicating the credentials were harvested from malware infections across a broad population of victims.

How Database Breaches Work

Stealer logs like those posted by the Satanic actor are built from malware deployed on victim machines. The malware captures saved browser passwords, autofill credentials, and active session cookies as users log into websites. These individual captures are aggregated into large URL-login-password (ULP) files and packaged for distribution. By posting them to a forum like BreachForums, the actor makes them available to the broader criminal community, amplifying the reach of each stolen credential set far beyond what any single attacker could exploit alone.

Check If You Are Affected

With 2,366,559 email-password pairs in this single release, and millions more across the full Satanic series, the odds of exposure are significant for active internet users. HEROIC's free breach scanner checks your email address against more than 400 billion exposed records. Visit heroic.com to run a free check and find out whether your credentials appeared in this or any other known breach.

Related Parts of This Breach

• BreachForums Private Satanic 10M ULP Sept #1 by Satanic
• BreachForums Private Satanic 10M ULP Sept #2 by Satanic
• BreachForums Private Satanic 10M ULP Part 2 Sept #3 by Satanic
• BreachForums Private Satanic 10M ULP Sept #4 by Satanic
• BreachForums Private Satanic 10M ULP Sept #5 by Satanic
• BreachForums Private Satanic 10M ULP Sept #6 by Satanic
• BreachForums Private Satanic 10M ULP Sept #7 by Satanic
• BreachForums Private Satanic 10M ULP Part 2 Sept #7 by Satanic
• BreachForums Private Satanic 10M ULP Sept #9 by Satanic