What Is a Stealer Log? Hits Leak Exposes 358K Passwords

In December 2022, a Telegram user uploaded a stealer log dump titled "Hits," exposing 358,404 records made up of email addresses, plaintext passwords, and login URLs collected from infected devices.

What Is a Stealer Log, and Why Does the Hits Leak Qualify?

A stealer log is not a hack of one company's servers. It is a collection of credentials pulled directly from individual computers by info-stealing malware. The Hits dump is a textbook example: 358,404 records scraped from whoever had the malware running on their machine, then bundled into one file and shared publicly.

What Was Exposed in the Hits Leak

• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords
• Login URLs tied to each credential set

Why This Matters

Because the 358,404 passwords in this file are stored in plaintext, they can be used the moment someone downloads the log. That makes them valuable for credential stuffing attacks across email, banking, and shopping sites, as well as account takeover, identity theft, and financial fraud for anyone whose records appear inside.

How Stealer Logs Like Hits Get Made

Info-stealing malware usually arrives through a cracked game, fake software installer, or malicious email link. Once running, it copies every password saved in the victim's browser, along with autofill data and session cookies, and sends it back to whoever controls the malware. Those stolen credentials get compiled into files like Hits and distributed through Telegram channels, sometimes for free and sometimes for sale.

Check If You Are Affected

Since the Hits log is a general collection rather than a leak tied to one specific website, anyone could be inside it. HEROIC's free breach scanner checks your email against more than 400 billion leaked records, including stealer log dumps like this one, so you can see in seconds if your credentials were part of this leak.