The Justice Department announced today a coordinated international operation against Genesis Market, a criminal online marketplace that advertised and sold packages of account access credentials – such as usernames and passwords for email, bank accounts, and social media – that had been stolen from malware-infected computers around the world.

Since its inception in March 2018, ‘Genesis Market’ has offered access to data stolen from over 1.5 million compromised computers around the world containing over 80 million account access credentials. Law enforcement agencies in the United States, Canada and across Europe were involved in the operation.