diff --git a/logging-modules/logback/pom.xml b/logging-modules/logback/pom.xml
index c11f20955b..6d32025d94 100644
--- a/logging-modules/logback/pom.xml
+++ b/logging-modules/logback/pom.xml
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
     </parent>
 
     <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.json</groupId>
+            <artifactId>json</artifactId>
+            <version>20180130</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
             <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
diff --git a/logging-modules/logback/src/main/java/com/baeldung/logback/MaskingPatternLayout.java b/logging-modules/logback/src/main/java/com/baeldung/logback/MaskingPatternLayout.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..04321e9066
--- /dev/null
+++ b/logging-modules/logback/src/main/java/com/baeldung/logback/MaskingPatternLayout.java
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+package com.baeldung.logback;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.stream.IntStream;
+
+import ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout;
+import ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.ILoggingEvent;
+
+public class MaskingPatternLayout extends PatternLayout {
+
+    private Pattern multilinePattern;
+    private List<String> maskPatterns = new ArrayList<>();
+
+    // invoked for every single entry in the xml
+    public void addMaskPattern(String maskPattern) {
+        maskPatterns.add(maskPattern);
+        multilinePattern = Pattern.compile(maskPatterns.stream().collect(Collectors.joining("|")), Pattern.MULTILINE);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String doLayout(ILoggingEvent event) {
+        return maskMessage(super.doLayout(event));
+    }
+
+    private String maskMessage(String message) {
+        if (multilinePattern == null) {
+            return message;
+        }
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(message);
+        Matcher matcher = multilinePattern.matcher(sb);
+        while (matcher.find()) {
+            IntStream.rangeClosed(1, matcher.groupCount()).forEach(group -> {
+                if (matcher.group(group) != null) {
+                    // replace each character with asterisk
+                    IntStream.range(matcher.start(group), matcher.end(group)).forEach(i -> sb.setCharAt(i, '*'));
+                }
+            });
+        }
+        return sb.toString();
+    }
+
+}
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diff --git a/logging-modules/logback/src/main/java/com/baeldung/logback/MaskingPatternLayoutExample.java b/logging-modules/logback/src/main/java/com/baeldung/logback/MaskingPatternLayoutExample.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cbcd0209ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/logging-modules/logback/src/main/java/com/baeldung/logback/MaskingPatternLayoutExample.java
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package com.baeldung.logback;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.json.JSONObject;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+public class MaskingPatternLayoutExample {
+
+    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MaskingPatternLayoutExample.class);
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        Map<String, String> user = new HashMap<String, String>();
+        user.put("user_id", "87656");
+        user.put("SSN", "786445563");
+        user.put("address", "22 Street");
+        user.put("city", "Chicago");
+        user.put("Country", "U.S.");
+        user.put("ip_address", "192.168.1.1");
+        user.put("email_id", "spring@baeldung.com");
+        JSONObject userDetails = new JSONObject(user);
+
+        logger.info("MaskingPatternExample log from {}" + userDetails, MaskingPatternLayoutExample.class.getSimpleName());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/logging-modules/logback/src/main/resources/logback.xml b/logging-modules/logback/src/main/resources/logback.xml
index 76ddc2e3ee..2d56c110e0 100644
--- a/logging-modules/logback/src/main/resources/logback.xml
+++ b/logging-modules/logback/src/main/resources/logback.xml
@@ -47,10 +47,23 @@
         <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.html.HTMLLayout"/>
     </appender>
 
+    <appender name="mask" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+        <encoder class="ch.qos.logback.core.encoder.LayoutWrappingEncoder">
+            <layout class="com.baeldung.logback.MaskingPatternLayout">
+                <maskPattern>\"SSN\"\s*:\s*\"(.*?)\"</maskPattern> <!-- SSN JSON pattern -->
+                <maskPattern>\"address\"\s*:\s*\"(.*?)\"</maskPattern> <!-- Address JSON pattern -->
+                <maskPattern>(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)</maskPattern> <!-- Ip address IPv4 pattern -->
+                <maskPattern>(\w+@\w+\.\w+)</maskPattern> <!-- Email pattern -->
+                <pattern>%-5p [%d{ISO8601,UTC}] [%thread] %c: %m%n%rootException</pattern>
+            </layout>
+        </encoder>
+    </appender>
+
     <root level="info">
         <appender-ref ref="map"/>
         <appender-ref ref="out"/>
         <appender-ref ref="emailAppender"/>
+        <appender-ref ref="mask" />
     </root>
 
 </configuration>
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