Identity Theft Just Got Easier: Logs_26 May Puts 22,594 at Risk

HEROIC analysts found a stealer log titled "Logs_26 May" that a Telegram user uploaded on May 27, 2025. The file contained 22,594 records tied to United States based accounts, including email addresses, plaintext passwords, and the URLs of the login pages those credentials belonged to.

Why This Is Dangerous

Identity theft gets a lot easier when an attacker already has a working email, password, and the exact site it unlocks, and that is precisely what this leak hands over. Because the passwords were stored in plaintext, there is no encryption to break before a credential works. Anyone who downloads this file can immediately test which accounts it opens, and from a single working login, an attacker often has enough information, a name, an address, maybe payment details on file, to start building a full identity theft case against that person.

What Was Exposed in the Logs_26 May Leak

• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords
• URLs of the associated login accounts

Why This Matters for the 22,594 Affected Accounts

An email, password, and login URL bundled together is a ready-made toolkit for account takeover. If anyone among these 22,594 accounts reused their password elsewhere, an attacker can run the same login through automated credential stuffing tools against banking, email, and shopping sites within minutes. From there, the risk compounds quickly: a compromised email account is often the key to resetting passwords everywhere else, which is how a single leaked password turns into full-blown identity theft and financial fraud.

How Stealer Logs Like This One Are Created

A stealer log is the output of malware that infects a device and quietly harvests whatever login data it can find, usually credentials saved in a browser, autofill entries, and active session information. The infected machine sends everything back to the attacker, who compiles it into a dated file like the one uploaded here. These files are then circulated through Telegram channels and dark web forums, often for free to build a reputation, sometimes sold outright. Because the theft happens on the victim's own device rather than through a breach of a company's servers, a single stealer log can expose credentials for dozens of unrelated sites at once.

Check If You Are Affected

If you are based in the United States, or think your credentials could have been swept up in a stealer log campaign around late May 2025, checking your exposure now is worth doing before identity theft becomes a reality rather than a risk. HEROIC's free breach scanner searches a database of more than 400 billion leaked records, including stealer log dumps like this one, to show whether your email address has surfaced in a known breach. If it has, change the affected password immediately, along with any other account where you reused it.