The hotmail.es Leak: 6,847 Passwords Exposed. Yours Might Be One.
In early February 2025, HEROIC analysts discovered a stealer log posted to Telegram labeled "hotmail.es," containing 6,847 exposed records tied to hotmail.es email accounts. Each record includes an email address, a plaintext password, and the URL of the login page that password unlocks, the typical output of malware that harvests saved credentials from an infected browser.
The hotmail.es Leak: 6,847 Passwords Exposed. Yours Might Be One.
Nearly 7,000 accounts tied to Hotmail's Spanish-language domain now have their passwords sitting in plaintext in a file traded on Telegram. If your Hotmail address is one of them, anyone with this file can log straight into your inbox, no password reset or guessing needed.
What Was Exposed in the hotmail.es Log
- Email addresses
- Plaintext passwords
- URLs of the associated login pages
Why This Matters
Email accounts are the master key to most of a person's online life, since they are used to reset passwords for banking, shopping, and social media. If an attacker gets into a Hotmail inbox from this leak, they can use it to take over other accounts through password reset links, making credential stuffing and full account takeover a real and immediate risk for anyone in this file.
How This Stealer Log Was Built
Stealer malware infects a device through a cracked download, fake software update, or malicious link, then silently copies every password saved in the victim's browser along with the site it belongs to. The attacker collects this data automatically, sorts it by email domain, and uploads targeted files like this hotmail.es log to Telegram channels where stolen credentials are bought and sold.
Check If You Are Affected
If you use a hotmail.es address, it takes only a few seconds to check whether your login showed up in this leak. HEROIC's free breach scanner searches a database of more than 400 billion compromised records, so you can confirm your exposure and change your password before someone else logs in first.
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