Conde Nast user trove from 32.8 million accounts goes for $15,000

A Russian-language forum seller is offering what analysts call a genuine 32.8 million-account Conde Nast database tied to December's WIRED leak.

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Cheap per-record pricing can hide a serious exposure, and Ransomnews says that is the case with a Conde Nast database now listed at $15,000 on a Russian-language forum. The outlet checked a 5,000-row sample of the file, dated September to late October 2025, and found it consistent with genuine publisher account data, including entries that have never leaked before.

Accounts span titles such as Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, WIRED, Vanity Fair, and Glamour. Advertised at 32,815,767 unique email addresses, the collection only partially covers each person: name, mailing address, gender, birthday, and phone fields appear on a subset of rows. No passwords, hashes, usernames, or payment-card data are in the file.

Consistency tests back the authenticity claim: completion rates for each field sat within about a point of the listing, and 96 percent of US ZIP codes matched the state attached to the record. The bundle appears to combine the full set behind December’s WIRED leak with roughly 30.5 million records tied to other publications that have not appeared anywhere before.

Conde Nast has stayed silent on the listing. The account selling the data is new, holds little reputation, and offers escrow, all signs of a seller courting one buyer rather than a crowd. Whoever buys it can still turn the emails into phishing lures, fraud attempts, and credential-stuffing lists, which is what makes a quiet sale dangerous.

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