26 million LiveJournal passwords have been breached

TempestCatto · May 28, 2020

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On underground criminal marketplaces the email addresses and plaintext passwords of over 26 million LiveJournal blogging accounts are being traded, despite LiveJournal’s owners refusing to acknowledge that any security breach has occurred.

Sounds like we should no longer trust this company.

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The first rumours of a major security incident involving LiveJournal passwords first began bubbling up in October 2018, when data breach expert Troy Hunt tweeted that he had received multiple reports of a compromise after users complained they had received sextortion emails quoting passwords they said they only used on the platform.

Sextortion? You mean there's hot single moms in my area ready to have fun?

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At the same time Dreamwidth, a blogging platform forked from LiveJournal’s code, warned that it had also received reports of spam extortion emails demanding a Bitcoin ransom.

Kinda like how older people get phonecall scams where the scammer demands x amount in gift cards.

There didn't appear to be a real cause as to how these passwords got out, other than a tiny mention of plain text. Either way, one click in a janky email and the fire nation attacks. Come to think of it, I don't know what LiveJournal is, nor do I know anyone who uses it.

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