Here’s what to do if your credentials were on the market.
with all of your important email addresses, and then be sure to click the “Verify email” button in the confirmation email. Just searching for your email on the siteWe’ll go into what you can do to protect yourself if it turns out your credentials were available on Genesis — here’s, just in case you’ve got some really important accounts — but first, it’s useful to understand how the marketplace worked.
While Genesis Marketplace traded in usernames and passwords, it also sold access to users’ cookies and browser fingerprints as well, which could let hackers bypass protections like two-factor authentication. Cookies — or login tokens, to be specific — are files that websites store on your computer to show that you’ve already logged in by correctly entering your password and two-factor authentication information. They’re the reason you don’t have to log into a website each time you visit it.
They undoubtedly make the web convenient to use, but they pose a security risk if someone were to get a hold of them — say, by getting a user to download a piece of malware and then uploading them to a hacker’s servers. According to the DOJ, the data sold on Genesis came from “over 1.5 million compromised computers around the world.”
Web developers, however, know about this possibility and will often build in additional protections. One is called fingerprinting, which is a technique that looks at a ton of information about your computer, like what browser you’re using, what fonts you have installed, what hardware you have, etc.
So Genesis stole the fingerprints, too. What’s more, it even provided a browser extension that let hackers spoof the victim’s fingerprint while using their login cookie to gain access to an account, according to
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