How the FateTraffic 2 Leak Put 35,399 Logins Up for Grabs

In August 2026, HEROIC analysts identified a stealer log labeled FateTraffic 2, tied to an uploader tagged ArhontCorp on Telegram, containing 35,399 records. Each record paired an email address with a plaintext password and a web address pulled from a device that had been infected with credential-stealing malware. Whether your details ended up in this collection is something only a direct check can answer, so scanning your email is the fastest first step.

Why This Is Dangerous

It starts on a single device: malware installed, often without the owner noticing, then quietly reads whatever passwords the browser had saved and copies them out along with the sites they belonged to. Multiply that by tens of thousands of infected devices and you get a file like this one, packaged up and distributed on Telegram for anyone to download.

What Was Exposed

• Email Addresses
• Plaintext Password
• URLs

Once a file like this circulates, the realistic risks include automated login attempts across email, banking, and retail accounts, plus fraud committed using any account that gets taken over. Because the passwords were never scrambled, there is nothing standing between the leak and someone actually using the credentials.

This particular file is a stealer log rather than a database breach or a combolist, which matters because the data came directly from infected personal devices rather than a company's servers or a patchwork of older leaks. That origin usually means the credentials are recent and have not yet been tested or flagged anywhere else.

Find Out Where You Stand

Scan your email to see if it turns up in this file. If it does, change that password everywhere you have used it and scan the device you sign in from for lingering malware.

This applies equally to personal and work email addresses saved in an infected browser.