Dark Web Intel: 529,530 Credentials From the free_navalny Dump

HEROIC analysts tracked a Telegram file named free_navalny circulating with 529,530 records of email addresses, plaintext passwords, and login URLs, dated April 2021. A file with more than half a million entries gives whoever holds it a huge testing ground of working credentials to try against other sites. The fastest way to know if your information is part of it is to scan your email.

Watching a Large File Move Through Telegram Channels

Files this size rarely stay in one place. Once a combolist reaches hundreds of thousands of records, it tends to get copied, repackaged, and shared across multiple channels, which means more people gain access to the same working logins over time rather than fewer.

What the free_navalny File Contains

• Email Addresses: point an attacker toward a specific inbox to target with phishing or reset requests.
• Plaintext Passwords: sit fully readable, meaning no cracking is needed before a login attempt.
• URLs: reveal exactly which site each password pair was captured for.

Half a Million Reasons This Matters

A file of this scale is built for automated credential stuffing, where software tries every entry against popular login pages in bulk. Anyone whose password shows up here risks losing access to that account, plus every other account protected by the same reused password.

How Files Like This Circulate

A combolist pulls together email and password pairs gathered from many earlier sources into one large list for testing which ones still work. It is not evidence any single company suffered a breach of its own systems. It is simply a working file passed around to find active logins.

Is Your Email in the free_navalny Dump?

Check right now by choosing to scan your email. If a match turns up, change that password immediately from a device you trust, and update it anywhere else you used the same one, since one exposed password can open several doors at once. Treat a work email with the same caution as a personal one.