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Breach occurred 2020-10-02Verifiedgeniusu.com
What happened
In November 2020, a collection of data breaches were made public including the "Entrepreneur Success Platform", GeniusU. Dating back to the previous month, the data included 1.3M names, email and IP addresses, genders, links to social media profiles and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The GeniusU data breach occurred on October 2, 2020. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on January 8, 2021.
1,301,460 accounts were affected by the GeniusU data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The GeniusU breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Genders, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Social media profiles.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the GeniusU breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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