The MaritimeCSR Breach Put 24,864 Email and Password Pairs Online

HEROIC analysts have added the MaritimeCSR data breach to our records. MaritimeCSR, a now-defunct US-based portal covering sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility in the maritime and shipping industry, was breached on August 26, 2018, exposing 24,864 unique records. The compromised data includes email addresses and plaintext passwords, which were shared on a prominent hacking forum.

Why This Is Dangerous

Because these passwords were stored and leaked in plaintext, there is no encryption for an attacker to break through. Each of the 24,864 records pairs a former MaritimeCSR reader's email address directly with their exact password, giving anyone who obtains this file everything needed to attempt a login anywhere that password was reused. Since MaritimeCSR itself is now defunct, there is no company left to notify users or force a password reset.

What Was Exposed

• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords

Why This Matters

A leak like this one is a straightforward resource for credential stuffing, where attackers automatically test stolen email and password combinations against banking sites, email providers, and social media platforms. Because the original site is gone, anyone whose password was captured here has no way to be warned by MaritimeCSR itself, which makes password reuse an even bigger risk. If the same password unlocks another account, this leak can lead directly to account takeover, identity theft, or financial fraud.

How This Combolist Was Created

MaritimeCSR's breach is classified as a database and combolist incident, meaning attackers accessed the site's own user database and later compiled the stolen data into a combolist, a simple file pairing each email address with its matching password. Combolists like this one continue circulating on hacking forums for years, remaining fully usable against anyone who never changed the exposed password, even after the original site has shut down.

Check If You Are Affected

If you ever had an account with MaritimeCSR, your email and password may still be circulating on hacking forums today, with no company left to alert you. HEROIC's free breach scanner checks your email against a database of more than 400 billion leaked records, including the MaritimeCSR breach, so you can find out quickly whether your information was exposed.