44,597 Passwords Exposed in DE 3.8 Telegram Combolist Leak

DE 3.8 Combolist Leaks 44,597 Email and Password Pairs

In January 2023, HEROIC analysts identified a combolist labeled DE 3.8, uploaded to Telegram by an anonymous user. The file contained 44,597 records pairing email addresses with plaintext passwords, along with the URLs each login was tied to. The "DE" and version-style "3.8" naming suggests this was one release in a series of similarly labeled lists, likely filtered or organized by the seller for a specific audience.

Why This Is Dangerous

With 44,597 plaintext credential pairs in one file, an attacker has everything needed to launch automated login attempts immediately, no password cracking required. At this scale, even a low success rate against reused passwords still hands criminals thousands of working accounts across email, banking, and shopping sites.

What Was Exposed

• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords
• Associated URLs (the sites tied to each login)

Why This Matters

A combolist this size is built to fuel credential stuffing, where the same email and password pairs are tested against dozens of unrelated websites in rapid succession. Anyone in this file who reused a password elsewhere faces a direct risk of account takeover, identity theft, and financial fraud, since one exposed login can unlock several accounts at once.

How Versioned Combolists Like DE 3.8 Are Made

Sellers who release combolists in numbered versions are typically maintaining an ongoing collection, adding newly stolen credentials as they acquire them and issuing an updated file under an incremented version number. This lets buyers track which release is most current and gives the appearance of an actively maintained criminal product rather than a one-time leak.

Check If You Are Affected

With 44,597 records in this single file, checking your exposure is worth doing now. HEROIC's free breach scanner searches a database of more than 400 billion leaked records, including combolists like DE 3.8, so you can see if your email and password were part of this leak and change them before someone else does.