Search Your Email: log pass 68 2 uploaded by a Telegram User Leak

What HEROIC Analysts Found

HEROIC's dark web monitoring team identified a combolist titled "log pass 68 2 uploaded by a Telegram User," dated to 28 February 2023. The file contains 1,334,414 individual records pairing email addresses with plaintext passwords, along with the URLs of the sites those credentials belong to. The data appears to have circulated primarily through Telegram channels used to trade combolists, with users located in the United States among those affected.

Why This Combolist Leak Is Dangerous

What makes this file especially risky is that every password in it is stored in plaintext. There is no hashing or encryption standing between an attacker and a usable login. Anyone who downloads this combolist can open it and immediately start testing email and password pairs against other websites, no cracking tools or technical skill required.

Because the file also includes the URL tied to each set of credentials, attackers know exactly which site a password was originally used on. That makes it far easier to reuse stolen logins against banking portals, email providers, or social media accounts, especially for anyone who reused the same password in more than one place.

What Was Exposed

• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords
• URLs associated with each set of login credentials

Why This Matters

Combolists like this one are a core ingredient in credential stuffing attacks, where automated tools rapidly try the same email and password combination across hundreds of other websites. If you have ever reused a password across more than one account, a single exposed login here can lead to account takeover on services that had nothing to do with the original leak.

From there, the risk expands quickly. A compromised email account can be used to reset passwords on banking, shopping, and social media accounts, opening the door to identity theft and financial fraud that can take months to fully unwind.

How Combolists Work

A combolist is simply a large text file of email-and-password pairs, often gathered from multiple older breaches or malware infections and repackaged for resale or free distribution on platforms like Telegram. Unlike a single company's breach dump, a combolist can blend credentials from many different sources into one file, which is what makes it valuable to attackers running large-scale credential stuffing campaigns across many sites at once.

Check If You Are Affected

The only way to know for certain if your email and password appear in this combolist is to check. HEROIC's free breach scanner searches across more than 400 billion leaked records, including combolists like this one, to tell you whether your information has been exposed. If it has, change the affected password immediately and avoid reusing it anywhere else.