diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index 738c86409..de79aed70 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 - Documents: Added docs/limits.txt
 - Files: Copy include/ folder and its content when SHARED is set to 1 in Makefile
 - Files: Switched back to relative current working directory on windows to work around problems with unicode characters
+- Hashcat Context: Fixed a memory leak in shutdown phase
 - Hash Parser: Changed the way large strings are handled/truncated within the event buffer if they are too large to fit
 - Hash Parser: Fixed a memory leak in shutdown phase
 - Hash Parser: Fixed the use of strtok_r () calls
diff --git a/src/hashcat.c b/src/hashcat.c
index 507b9c8ee..7e1380cb5 100644
--- a/src/hashcat.c
+++ b/src/hashcat.c
@@ -879,6 +879,7 @@ void hashcat_destroy (hashcat_ctx_t *hashcat_ctx)
   hcfree (hashcat_ctx->dictstat_ctx);
   hcfree (hashcat_ctx->event_ctx);
   hcfree (hashcat_ctx->folder_config);
+  hcfree (hashcat_ctx->hashcat_user);
   hcfree (hashcat_ctx->hashconfig);
   hcfree (hashcat_ctx->hashes);
   hcfree (hashcat_ctx->hwmon_ctx);