Your Hotmail Login May Be Sitting in the 2953x Combolist Leak

HEROIC analysts found a combolist called "2953x hotmail uploaded by a Telegram User" after it surfaced on July 12, 2026. The file holds 2,950 records, each one pairing an email address, most tied to Hotmail accounts, with a plaintext password and a linked URL, ready for anyone who downloads it to start logging in.

Why This Hotmail Combolist Is Dangerous

Because the passwords in this file are stored in plaintext, there is no encryption to break through. Anyone who opens the list can read the email, password, and site URL together in seconds and start testing logins immediately, no technical skill required.

What Was Exposed

• Email addresses (largely Hotmail accounts)
• Plaintext passwords
• URLs linked to the accounts

Why This Matters

Combolists built around a single email provider, like this Hotmail-heavy list, are prime material for credential stuffing. Attackers know that many people reuse the same password for their email account across banking apps, online shopping, and social media. If your Hotmail login and password appear here and you have reused them elsewhere, your other accounts could be at risk of takeover, identity theft, or financial fraud.

How Combolists Work

A combolist is a text file of email-and-password pairs pulled together from earlier leaks and repackaged for reuse. This one was distributed through Telegram, a popular channel for sharing freshly compiled credential lists. Because the data is already in plaintext, whoever uploaded it did not need to do any extra cracking work, the list was usable the moment it was posted.

Check If You Are Affected

If you use a Hotmail account, or any email address, it is worth checking whether it turned up in this leak. HEROIC's free breach scanner searches a database of more than 400 billion leaked records, including combolists, stealer logs, and database dumps, so you can see your exposure and update any password before someone else tries to use it.