Data breach
Anti Public Combo List
457 962 538 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2016-12-16.
Breached2016-12-16Added to HIBP2017-05-04 UTCUpdated by HIBP2017-05-04 UTCAccounts457 962 538Domain—
Unverified
What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In December 2016, a huge list of email address and password pairs appeared in a "combo list" referred to as "Anti Public". The list contained 458 million unique email addresses, many with multiple different passwords hacked from various online systems. The list was broadly circulated and used for "credential stuffing", that is attackers employ it in an attempt to identify other online systems where the account owner had reused their password. For detailed background on this incident, read Password reuse, credential stuffing and another billion records in Have I Been Pwned.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- Passwords
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP could not verify that the data came from this service.
HIBP names no domain for this breach.
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC