Universarium Data Breach

What happened

In approximately November 2019, the Russian "Remote preparatory faculty for IT specialties" Universarium suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 565k email addresses and passwords in plain text. Universarium did not respond to multiple attempts to make contact over a period of many weeks. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Universarium 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 Universarium — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.