137 Hotmail Accounts Leaked by et0kenneth via Telegram Post

Not every leak needs to hit six figures to matter. On February 12, 2025, a Telegram user going by et0kenneth posted a small batch of 137 Hotmail credentials, each one paired with a plaintext password and a URL showing exactly where it worked. Small in headline terms, sure, but if your inbox happens to be one of those 137, the size of the file means nothing to you.

Why This Is Dangerous

What makes this particular dump risky isn't the volume, it's the format. These are Hotmail logins captured straight from an infected device, meaning the password field isn't a hash that needs cracking, it's the actual word or phrase the account owner typed in. Anyone who picks up this file can try logging into the exact inbox tied to each entry within seconds, no technical skill required.

What Was Exposed

• Hotmail email addresses belonging to real account holders
• Passwords stored in plaintext, with no hashing or masking
• URLs pinpointing where each set of credentials was captured

Why This Matters

A batch of 137 might seem too small to worry about, but that logic misses how these lists actually get used. Buyers often stitch together dozens of small stealer log posts like this one into a much bigger combo list, then run automated login attempts across banking sites, shopping accounts, and social media all at once. If even one password from this leak was recycled somewhere else, the exposure quietly multiplies, and the original victim may never even relize it happened.

How This Stealer Log Was Built

This falls under the stealer log category of breach, which starts nothing like a corporate hack. Malware gets planted on a personal computer, often bundled with pirated software or a fake download link, and once it runs it quietly scrapes every saved password, cookie, and autofill entry out of the browser. The infected machine's owner rarely notices anything wrong, and the harvested data eventually gets packaged up and posted, in this case under the handle et0kenneth, for anyone on that Telegram channel to recieve for free.

Check If You Are Affected

HEROIC keeps watch over more than 400 billion leaked records pulled from breaches just like this one, and checking your own email takes less time than it took to read this article. Head over to HEROIC's free scanner, enter your address, and you'll immediately see if it shows up anywhere in that dataset. It only takes a minute, and it's a lot better than finding out the hard way after someone else has already logged into your account.