Inside Genesis: The market created by cybercriminals to make millions selling your digital identity

Cybersecurity experts warn that a notorious hacker marketplace is being used by ransomware gangs to breach U.S. companies and government organizations.

The Genesis Market is an easy-to-use online shop that sells login credentials, cookies and device fingerprints, website vulnerabilities and other sensitive data that help hackers thwart security protocols. Security researchers warn that the market, along with other criminal sites, have become an important tool for hacking organizations to carry out these attacks. Genesis launched in 2018 and is linked to a number of recent cyberattacks, including a breach of video game publisher Electronic Arts in June of this year that resulted in the loss of sensitive data, including the source code for the game FIFA 21.