What We Know About the CRYPTON_LOGS 299PCS Password Leak

Here is what HEROIC analysts have confirmed so far: a stealer log named CRYPTON_LOGS 299PCS was uploaded to a Telegram channel on August 8, 2024, containing 5,100 records, each one an email address paired with a plaintext password and the site it was tied to. What is not yet confirmed is whether your own email is among them, and scanning it is the only way to settle that.

Why This Is Dangerous

Because none of the passwords in this file were hashed or encrypted, every record is immediately usable by whoever has the file. There is no waiting period where a password needs to be cracked; it works exactly as it was typed the moment someone tries it.

• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords
• URLs tied to each saved login

Files of this kind get run against major email, banking, and shopping platforms almost as soon as they surface. If a password shows up working somewhere it should not, the consequences move quickly from one exposed account to several, especially when the same password guards an email inbox that can reset other logins.

What is known about how this file was made points to stealer malware, software that infects a device and quietly copies whatever logins the browser had stored, matching each one to the site it came from. No company's systems needed to be compromised for this to happen; a single infected computer was enough.

Find Out What You Need to Do

Scan your email to check it against this file and other known exposures. If it matches, change that password right away and anywhere else you reused it, this holds for a personal inbox just as much as a work one.