ITALY 3 2 uploaded by a Telegram User: 131,966 Passwords Exposed

HEROIC analysts identified a combolist titled "ITALY 3 2," uploaded to a Telegram channel on March 23, 2023, and recently resurfaced in monitoring feeds. The file contains 131,966 records pairing email addresses with plaintext passwords, along with the URLs of the accounts they unlock.

131,966 Passwords Exposed. Yours Might Be One.

That is not a hypothetical number, it is the exact count of email and password pairs sitting in this one file right now. Because the passwords are stored in plaintext, anyone who downloads the list can read and use every single credential immediately, with no cracking, guessing, or waiting required.

What Was Exposed

• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords
• Account URLs

Why This Matters

If you reuse passwords across different accounts, a single match in this list can be enough for an attacker to break into your email, banking, or social media as well. Combolists of this size fuel large-scale credential stuffing attacks, where automated tools test each email and password pair against dozens of popular sites at once, leading to account takeover, financial fraud, and identity theft for anyone whose credentials still work.

How Combolists Work

A combolist pairs usernames or email addresses with matching passwords, typically gathered from older leaks, phishing pages, or malware infections and combined into one large file. Attackers favor combolists because they remove the hard work of hacking entirely, feeding the list into automated tools that try each login until they find one that still works.

Check If You Are Affected

With 131,966 credential pairs now circulating, the only way to know for certain is to check. HEROIC's free breach scanner searches more than 400 billion leaked records, including this combolist, so you can find out immediately if your email and password were exposed and secure your accounts before someone else uses them.