Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-05-27 00:00:00
Affected organization: LiveJournal
Affected country: Russian Federation
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Blogging platform LiveJournal appears to have suffered a security breach in 2014, and multiple hackers are selling the company's user database on the dark web and on hacking forums (26 million users).