A Telegram Channel Quietly Shared 440,824 Stolen Logins

Picture a quiet corner of Telegram, a channel with a plain, forgettable name, where someone drops a file called LOGS_URL 72 without much fanfare. No press release, no announcement, just a link and a download count that keeps climbing. Inside that file sit 440,824 records, each one a real login harvested from an infected device.

Why This Is Dangerous

There's no dramatic hacking scene here, no alarms going off. Just an ordinary looking file sitting quietly in a chat that anyone can join. That quietness is exactly wich makes this kind of leak so effective, nobody notices until their bank account gets drained or their email gets locked out from under them.

What Was Exposed

• 440,824 total records
• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords
• URLs for each account

Why This Matters

With 440,824 records in one place, this file gives attackers an enormous head start. They don't need to guess passwords or run brute force attacks, they can just read them straight out of the file and try them imediately against email providers, banks, and shopping sites.

How Stealer Logs Work

A leak this size doesn't come from a single hack, it usually comes from many separate infections combined into one master file. Infostealer malware infects a device through a cracked program or infected download, quietly harvests every saved password and cookie, and sends it home to the attacker. Over time, thousands of these small hauls get merged into one file like LOGS_URL 72.

Check If You Are Affected

Don't wait for the quiet moment to turn into a loud problem. HEROIC's free breach scanner checks your email against a database of more than 400 billion leaked records, so you can see right now if you were caught up in this one.