LiveJournal data breach (2017)

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2017-01-01, LiveJournal was affected by a data breach. Approximately 26,372,781 accounts were exposed. 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.

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Data breachResolvedDecember 20, 2017

2fast4u data breach (2017)

In December 2017, the Belgian motorcycle forum 2fast4u discovered a data breach of their system. The breach of the vBulletin message board impacted over 17k individual users and exposed email addresses, usersnames and salted MD5 passwords.

Victim: 2fast4u
Records: 17.7K

Data breachResolvedDecember 5, 2017

ai.type data breach (2017)

In December 2017, the virtual keyboard application ai.type was found to have left a huge amount of data publicly facing in an unsecured MongoDB instance.

Victim: ai.type
Records: 20.6M

Data breachResolvedNovember 21, 2017

TheTVDB.com data breach (2017)

In November 2017, the open television database known as TheTVDB.com suffered a data breach. The breached data was posted to a hacking forum and included 182k records with usernames, email addresses and MySQL password hashes.

Victim: TheTVDB.com
Records: 181.9K

Data breachResolvedSeptember 10, 2017

Smogon data breach (2017)

In April 2018, the Pokémon website known as Smogon announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach dated back to September 2017 and affected their XenForo based forum. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses, genders and both bcrypt and MD5 password hashes.

Victim: Smogon
Records: 386.5K

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2fast4u data breach (2017)

ai.type data breach (2017)

TheTVDB.com data breach (2017)

Smogon data breach (2017)