The “good” Leak: 1,978 Passwords Exposed. Yours Might Be One.

HEROIC analysts identified a third combolist labeled "good," this one uploaded by a Telegram user in November 2025. The file contains 1,978 records pairing email addresses with plaintext passwords, along with associated URLs. Nearly 2,000 people have working, readable credentials sitting in a file that anyone on Telegram can download right now.

Why This Leak Deserves Your Attention

There is no encryption standing between an attacker and these 1,978 accounts. The passwords are stored in plaintext, meaning anyone who grabs this file can log in immediately using the email and password pairs exactly as they appear, along with the URL pointing to where each one works. If your password shows up here and you have used it anywhere else, that account is exposed too. Yours might be one of the 1,978.

What Was Exposed in This "good" File

• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords
• Associated URLs linking each credential to a login page

Why This Matters for Nearly 2,000 People

A file of almost 2,000 credentials is more than enough to fuel automated credential stuffing attacks, where scripts test each email and password pair against banks, email providers, and shopping sites within seconds. If you are one of the people in this file and have reused your password, you face real risk of account takeover, identity theft, and financial fraud, whether or not you ever hear about this specific leak.

How a Combolist Like This Gets Assembled

A combolist is a compiled file of email and password pairs, usually gathered from phishing pages, malware infections, or older breaches and merged into one document. Files like this one are given short, generic names, in this case "good" again, and shared or sold on Telegram to buyers who use them to attempt logins across many sites at once.

Check If You Are Affected

To find out whether your email address appears in this file or any other breach HEROIC tracks, use HEROIC's free breach scanner. It checks your information against a database of more than 400 billion leaked records, so you can quickly see your exposure and update any reused passwords before someone else does.