Editing LiveJournal (section)

===Presumed database breach===
In October 2018, [[Troy Hunt]], creator of the [[Have I Been Pwned?]] site, tweeted that he was getting multiple independent reports that email addresses and passwords from the LiveJournal user database were being used in a scam email campaign.<ref>Hunt, Troy, [https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1050391317266620416 "I’m getting multiple independent reports of a @LiveJournal compromise, anyone else?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024091946/https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1050391317266620416 |date=2020-10-24 }}, October 11, 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-11.</ref>

In May 2020, admins at [[Dreamwidth]] reported that they had repeatedly warned LiveJournal of an apparent breach with exposure of LiveJournal passwords, dating back to 2017 or 2014, but that LiveJournal had declined to disclose this to their users.<ref>{{Cite web|title=dw_news {{!}} PSA: Likely LiveJournal password compromise|url=https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/40167.html|access-date=2021-06-22|website=dw-news.dreamwidth.org|language=en|archive-date=2021-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629134825/https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/40167.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

This information was also passed on to (or somehow otherwise received by) the MyIDCare website (url=https://opm.myidcare.com), a site that was created in 2015 for Federal employees or retirees, who were given free lifetime monitoring to this service by the Office of Personnel Management (the "opm" in the URL), an agency of the Federal Government, after the personal information of millions of people was compromised in a major data breach involving approximately 21,500,000 records in that year (which was made even more serious by the fact that some of the compromised data included information such as fingerprints, which helped this breach gain national attention.<ref>{{Cite web|title=What are the Worst Government Data Breaches?|url=https://www.fedsmith.com/2019/08/07/worst-government-data-breaches/|access-date=2022-11-06|website=www.fedsmith.com|language=en|archive-date=2022-11-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221106221018/https://www.fedsmith.com/2019/08/07/worst-government-data-breaches/|url-status=live}}</ref> The MyIDCare site sent out an alert (dated May 22, 2020) to their previously registered users about a potential data breach at LiveJournal and requested that users change their passwords to protect those accounts against potentially fraudulent activity.