Personal Data Leak Monitor

LiveJournal data breach

26.4M accounts from LiveJournal (livejournal.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
January 1, 2017
Accounts
26,372,781
Added to the database
May 26, 2020

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What leaked

Email addressesPasswordsUsernames

What to do now

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  3. Verify you have not reused that login anywhere

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About this breach

In mid-2019, news broke of an alleged LiveJournal data breach. This followed multiple reports of credential abuse against Dreamwidth beginning in 2018, a fork of LiveJournal with a significant crossover in user base. The breach allegedly dates back to 2017 and contains 26M unique usernames and email addresses (both of which have been confirmed to exist on LiveJournal) alongside plain text passwords. An archive of the data was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum in May 2020 and redistributed broadly.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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