A database containing over 26 million unique LiveJournal user accounts, including plain text passwords, is being shared for free on multiple hacker forums. For some time, rumours have been circulating that LiveJournal was breached in 2014 and account credentials for 33 million users were stolen. Since approximately May 8th, 2020, links to a data dump allegedly containing 33,717,787 unique accounts have been circulating on various hacker forums. The passwords were converted to plain text after initially being stored as MD5 hashes.
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@Boris Cipot, Senior Sales Engineer , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"I would urge all LiveJournal users to change their passwords, not only to their LiveJournal accounts, but all accounts with potentially sensitive...."
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@Boris Cipot, Senior Sales Engineer , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"I would urge all LiveJournal users to change their passwords, not only to their LiveJournal accounts, but all accounts with potentially sensitive...."
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@Chris Hauk, Consumer Privacy Champion, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Once the bad guys get their hands on information like this, they immediately begin trying other sites and services to attempt to access accounts. ..."
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@Chris Hauk, Consumer Privacy Champion, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Once the bad guys get their hands on information like this, they immediately begin trying other sites and services to attempt to access accounts. ..."
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@Anurag Kahol, CTO , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Personal data is precious, and it is imperative that the proper controls are in place to secure it. ..."
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@Anurag Kahol, CTO , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Personal data is precious, and it is imperative that the proper controls are in place to secure it. ..."
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@Samantha Humphries, Security Strategist , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Credentials can be a huge problem for security teams once an attacker is undercover in the network...."
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@Samantha Humphries, Security Strategist , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Credentials can be a huge problem for security teams once an attacker is undercover in the network...."
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@Trevor Morgan, Product Manager , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords are valuable information if they fall into the wrong hands...."
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@Trevor Morgan, Product Manager , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords are valuable information if they fall into the wrong hands...."
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@Chris Clements, VP, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The breach has been well known since late 2018 and the dataset suggests it began 4 years earlier in 2014. ..."
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@Chris Clements, VP, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The breach has been well known since late 2018 and the dataset suggests it began 4 years earlier in 2014. ..."
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@Javvad Malik, Security Awareness Advocate, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"It\'s important that credentials like passwords are stored in a secure manner...."
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@Javvad Malik, Security Awareness Advocate, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"It\'s important that credentials like passwords are stored in a secure manner...."
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@Robert Ramsden Board, VP EMEA , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Despite LiveJournal’s efforts to encrypt personally identifiable information (PII), the MD5 hashed passwords were easily converted to plain text. ..."
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@Robert Ramsden Board, VP EMEA , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Despite LiveJournal’s efforts to encrypt personally identifiable information (PII), the MD5 hashed passwords were easily converted to plain text. ..."
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