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Betterment breach: 1,435,174 accounts exposed

In January 2026, the automated investment platform Betterment confirmed it had suffered a data breach attributed to a social engineering attack .

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What happened

In January 2026, the automated investment platform Betterment confirmed it had suffered a data breach attributed to a social engineering attack . As part of the incident, Betterment customers received fraudulent crypto-related messages promising high returns if funds were sent to an attacker-controlled cryptocurrency wallet. The breach exposed 1.

4M unique email addresses, along with names and geographic location data. A subset of records also included dates of birth, phone numbers, and physical addresses. In its disclosure notice , Betterment stated that the incident did not provide attackers with access to customer accounts and did not expose passwords or other login credentials.

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    Have I Been Pwned: Betterment (opens a new tab)

    Verified breach loaded into Have I Been Pwned: account count, exposed data types, and dates.

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    Betterment disclosure (opens a new tab)

    The organization's own breach disclosure, as linked by Have I Been Pwned.

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    The breach list that supplied this entry.

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APA

KEVWire. (2026, February 5). Betterment breach: 1,435,174 accounts exposed. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-betterment

MLA

"Betterment breach: 1,435,174 accounts exposed." KEVWire, 5 Feb. 2026, kevwire.com/record/hibp-betterment.

Chicago

KEVWire. "Betterment breach: 1,435,174 accounts exposed." Last modified February 5, 2026. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-betterment.

Evidence summary (plain text)

Betterment breach: 1,435,174 accounts exposed (Feb 5, 2026).
In January 2026, the automated investment platform Betterment confirmed it had suffered a data breach attributed to a social engineering attack . As part of the incident, Betterment customers received fraudulent crypto-related messages promising high returns if funds were sent to an attacker-controlled cryptocurrency wallet. The breach exposed 1.4M unique email addresses, along with names and geographic location data. A subset of records also included dates of birth, phone numbers, and physical addresses. In its disclosure notice , Betterment stated that the incident did not provide attackers with access to customer accounts and did not expose passwords or other login credentials.
Sources:
Have I Been Pwned: Betterment: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Betterment
Betterment disclosure: https://www.betterment.com/customer-update
Have I Been Pwned breach API: https://haveibeenpwned.com/api/v3/breaches
Record ID: hibp-betterment.
Record origin: Ingested record.
AI evidence: Not assessed.
About this data

This record was ingested from a data source. Retrieved: Oct 27, 2026, 00:25 UTC. Ingestion is not an independent editorial investigation.

Verified by Have I Been Pwned. Breach date: 2026-01-09; loaded 2026-02-05. Exposed data: Dates of birth, Device information, Email addresses, Employers, Geographic locations, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses. Counts are accounts in the loaded data, not necessarily distinct people.

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