LiveJournal data breach
The LiveJournal breach happened on January 1, 2017 and exposed 26,372,781 accounts. 3 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- livejournal.com
- Breach date
- January 1, 2017
- Recorded on
- May 26, 2020
- Accounts exposed
- 26,372,781
- Exposed data
- Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames
- Risk score
- 66 out of 100
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 66 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Passwords, Email addresses, Usernames.
The risk score is a guide to how dangerous a breach is, judged by the kinds of data exposed. The number of accounts is not included.
Breaches from the same period
- River City Media Spam List (2017-01-01, 393,430,309 accounts)
- R2 (2017 forum breach) (2017-01-01, 1,023,466 accounts)
- Little Monsters (2017-01-01, 995,698 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your LiveJournal password, and also change it on any other service where you used the same password. You can create a new one with the password generator.
- Turn on two-factor authentication for your login.
This site organizes publicly available information about data breaches. Data as of May 26, 2020. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.