Security News > 2020 > May > 26 million logins believed to be stolen from LiveJournal in 2017 pop up on hacker forum

Russian-owned blogging service LiveJournal has reportedly suffered a hack affecting 26 million user accounts.

One year later a forked spinoff of LiveJournal called Dreamwidth began noticing credential-stuffing attacks.

Around 26 million "Unique" usernames, email addresses and passwords are said to have been stolen from LiveJournal and ended up circulating cybercrime forums.

A lengthy statement from Dreamwidth itself, published yesterday, alleged that stolen data was being used in a fresh round of seemingly successful account compromise attempts.

"We have no way to tell for sure whether LiveJournal has actually had a data breach," the forked platform added, advising: "It's best if you treat any password you've ever used on LiveJournal in the past as compromised, since we can't tell for certain when the alleged breach happened."

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