6,245,095 Credentials Leaked. Check Your Email Right Now

Six million, two hundred forty five thousand and ninety five. That's the exact record count inside a file named Files_17.10_18.21_90, uploaded to Telegram on October 10, 2024. It's the kind of number that's hard to picture until you realize it's roughly the population of a mid-sized country, all sitting in one leaked text file.

Why This Is Dangerous

There's nothing subtle about what this file offers an attacker. Every entry pairs an email address with a plaintext password and a URL, which means someone doesn't need any hacking skill whatsoever to use it, just a copy-paste and a login page. Files like this get passed around specifically because they require no technical effort to exploit.

What Was Exposed

• Email addresses belonging to millions of individual users
• Passwords stored with no encryption at all
• URLs indicating exactly which service each credential pair opens

The scale here is the headline. Six million-plus paired credentials is enough to run large-scale automated attacks across dozens of platforms simultaneously.

Why This Matters

If even a small percentage of these six million-plus credentials still work, that translates into hundreds of thousands of accounts an attacker could break into today. Combolists this size are frequently reused for months or years after they first leak, wich means the danger doesn't fade quickly just because the upload date has passed.

How Combolists Like This Get Made

Large combolists are typically produced by combining data from several smaller breaches or stealer infections, then formatting it consistently so automated tools can process it in bulk. The person behind file 90 appears to have been releasing a whole series of similarly sized files, suggesting a large underlying archive being split up and shared piece by piece.

Check If You Are Affected

Don't wait around wondering. HEROIC runs a free check of your email against a database of over 400 billion leaked records pulled from breaches just like this one, giving you a clear answer immediately. If your information matches, change that password today and avoid using it anywhere else.