Your Data May Be in This Hotmail Combolist of 1,731 Stolen Logins

HEROIC analysts identified a combolist simply named hotmail, uploaded by a Telegram user on 1 September 2024. The file contains 1,731 Hotmail email addresses paired with plaintext passwords and the URLs of the login pages they belong to.

Why This Is Dangerous

Your data may already be sitting in a file like this one without your knowledge. Combolists built around a single email provider are traded constantly on Telegram, and a plain, unremarkable name like "hotmail" is often used precisely because it is one of many similar files a seller cycles through. This particular batch exposed 1,731 working email and password pairs.

What Was Exposed

• Hotmail email addresses
• Plaintext passwords
• URLs of the login pages tied to each account

Why This Matters

A Hotmail inbox is frequently the recovery address for other accounts, so anyone who gains access can reset passwords on banking, shopping, or social media logins tied to that email. If a password in this list was reused anywhere else, the exposure spreads well beyond the original Hotmail account, opening the door to broader credential stuffing and identity theft.

How Combolists Work

A combolist gathers email or username and password pairs, typically pulled from stealer logs, older breaches, or phishing pages, and organizes them by provider or target site for easier resale. Attackers feed these lists into automated tools that attempt to log in at scale across many accounts at once, testing whether stolen credentials still work anywhere they can be reused.

Check If You Are Affected

HEROIC's free breach scanner checks your email against more than 400 billion leaked records, including plain combolists like this one that rarely get news coverage. Run a free search now to see if your Hotmail address is in this file.