MyRecon OSINTCombolists Posted to Telegram
On 28 May 2024, Combolists Posted to Telegram was breached. 361,468,099 accounts were exposed, including email addresses, passwords, usernames. MyRecon rates it 83/100 — critical. That is roughly everyone in the United States.
What happened
In May 2024, 2B rows of data with 361M unique email addresses were collated from malicious Telegram channels. The data contained 122GB across 1.7k files with email addresses, usernames, passwords and in many cases, the website they were entered into. The data appears to have been sourced from a combination of existing combolists and info stealer malware.
Breach description from Have I Been Pwned, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
Who was behind it
No party has been publicly confirmed as responsible, and this page will not name one. Most breaches are never formally attributed: data surfaces on a forum or inside a combined dump long after the intrusion, and the trail back to a specific actor is rarely made public. Where a group has claimed responsibility it is usually named in the account above — that claim is theirs, not a finding of ours.
What was exposed, and why it matters
- Email addressesThe address becomes a confirmed, active target — expect more phishing, better aimed.
- PasswordsAnyone reusing this password elsewhere has those accounts exposed too — credential stuffing is automated and tries them all within days.
- UsernamesA handle links this account to every other place the same handle is used.
What to do if you were in it
- Change this password anywhere you reused it, starting with your email account — that is the one that can reset all the others.
- Expect better-aimed phishing. A message that already knows your name and where you have an account is the whole point of a breach like this.
Questions people ask about this breach
Was my email address in the Combolists Posted to Telegram breach?
Enter it in the box at the top of this page. MyRecon checks it against this breach and every other one on record, and the address is never stored.
What data was leaked in the Combolists Posted to Telegram breach?
email addresses, passwords, usernames. Each one is explained above, along with what it means for the person it belongs to.
When did it happen, and when did it become public?
The breach is dated 28 May 2024. It was published to Have I Been Pwned on 3 June 2024, a gap of 7 days during which the data was already out.
Is the Combolists Posted to Telegram breach real?
Yes. Have I Been Pwned lists it as verified, meaning the data was checked against the source rather than taken on trust.
How many people were affected?
361,468,099 accounts. That is roughly everyone in the United States. That is accounts rather than people — one person often has several.
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Severity is scored by MyRecon from the number of accounts, the sensitivity of the specific fields exposed, and whether the breach is confirmed — not by a language model. The description above is quoted from Have I Been Pwned; the analysis around it is ours.