Russian-owned blogging service LiveJournal has reportedly suffered a hack affecting 26 million user accounts.
According to the reliable Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned? service, the incident occurred at some point in 2017. 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.
Beginning in March of 2020, and again in May of 2020, we saw several instances of Dreamwidth accounts being broken into and used for spam. We believed at the ..
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