The Daily Cribbage Hand Leak: 13,283 Passwords Exposed. Check Yours.

HEROIC analysts found roughly 13,283 records from Daily Cribbage Hand, a US-based online community and game platform for cribbage players, circulating on a public hacking forum. The breach is dated July 6, 2018, and the exposed data includes email addresses paired with passwords stored in plaintext, meaning no hashing or encryption was ever applied to protect them.

Why This Is Dangerous

Plaintext password storage means an attacker does not need to crack, guess, or brute-force anything. Every password in this dataset is readable exactly as the user typed it. That turns each of the 13,283 email and password pairs into an immediately usable login credential, no extra work required, which is a far more serious situation than a breach involving hashed passwords.

What Was Exposed in the Daily Cribbage Hand Breach

• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords

Why This Matters

A gaming and community site might seem low stakes, but the real danger is password reuse. Because these passwords were exposed in plaintext, they are especially valuable for credential stuffing, where attackers run stolen email and password pairs against email providers, banking sites, and social media platforms. If you ever signed up for Daily Cribbage Hand and used that same password anywhere else, that other account is at real risk of takeover, identity theft, or financial fraud.

How This Database Breach and Combolist Exposure Works

This incident is classified as a database breach that was later distributed as a combolist. A database breach happens when an attacker gains unauthorized access to a site's stored user records, often through a software vulnerability or an exposed server, and copies the entire table. Because Daily Cribbage Hand stored passwords in plaintext, the stolen data needed no further cracking to be useful. It was then combined with data from other breaches into a combolist, a large file of ready-to-use email and password pairs that attackers feed into automated tools to test logins across hundreds of other sites at once.

Check If You Are Affected

If you ever created an account with Daily Cribbage Hand, or if you tend to reuse the same password across sites, it is worth checking whether your information is part of this exposure. HEROIC's free breach scanner checks your email address against a database of more than 400 billion leaked records, including this one, so you can see what has been exposed and secure your accounts before someone else does.