Our Analysts Found 14,492 ProPack Romania Passwords Exposed Online

HEROIC analysts found a database breach affecting ProPack Romania, a Romanian packaging supplier and manufacturer, circulating on a hacking forum. The breach is dated to August 26, 2018, and exposed 14,492 records, including email addresses and plaintext passwords.

Why Plaintext Passwords in the ProPack Romania Breach Are Dangerous

Because these passwords were never hashed or encrypted, anyone who has this dataset can read and use them exactly as the original users typed them, no cracking required. That makes this breach especially useful to attackers looking for a quick, working login rather than a hash they would need to spend time and computing power to crack.

What Was Exposed in the ProPack Romania Breach

• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords

Why This Matters

Breach data like this is a staple of credential stuffing attacks, where attackers automatically test each leaked email and password pair against banking sites, email providers, and other online accounts. If anyone tied to ProPack Romania reused their password elsewhere, even years after the original 2018 breach, that account remains exposed to takeover, identity theft, or financial fraud.

How a Database and Combolist Breach Spreads

This incident is classified as a database and combolist breach. The original data was taken directly from ProPack Romania's systems, then repackaged into a combolist, a simple file pairing emails with passwords, which can circulate on hacking forums for years after the initial theft.

Check If You Are Affected

Use HEROIC's free breach scanner to check if your email shows up in the ProPack Romania breach or any other leak. It searches a database of more than 400 billion leaked records so you can find out and change any reused passwords.