Change Your Passwords Now: 6,240,540 Logins Just Leaked Here

Stop reusing that old password. A combolist called "Files_17.10_18.21_70" just put 6,240,540 email and password combinations into circulation on Telegram, and every single one of them was originally tied to a real account back in October 2024.

Why This Is Dangerous

There's no soft way to say it: if your login is in this file, someone can use it right now. No hacking skill required, no waiting, just copy, paste, and try. That's the entire attack, and it works often enough that criminals keep doing it.

What Was Exposed

• 6.2 million email and username entries
• Plaintext passwords stored with zero protection
• The exact URLs each login pair was scraped from

Why This Matters

Waiting to deal with this is the wrong move. Every day this file stays online is another day someone could log into your email, drain a shopping account, or lock you out of something you actually care about. Six million records is a big haystack, but the needle could definately be yours.

How Combolists Turn Into Real Attacks

Attackers load a file like this into automated tools built specifically for credential stuffing, then let the software hammer login pages with every combination until a handful stick. It doesn't take a skilled hacker, just patience and a botnet, and 6.2 million records is more than enough to land a few thousand hits.

Check If You Are Affected

Don't wait for a fraud alert to relize your password is already out there. HEROIC has more than 400 billion leaked records indexed, and our free scanner tells you in seconds if your email is one of the 6,240,540 caught up in this specific leak. Check it now, then go change anything that still uses that old password.