Data breach
LiveJournallivejournal.com
26 372 781 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2017-01-01.
Breached2017-01-01Added to HIBP2020-05-26 UTCUpdated by HIBP2020-05-26 UTCAccounts26 372 781Domainlivejournal.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
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.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- Passwords
- Usernames
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC