GeniusU Data Breach

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.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your GeniusU password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing GeniusU — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.