OGUsers (2019 breach) data breach: 161K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-05-19
In May 2019, the account hijacking and SIM swapping forum OGusers suffered a data breach. The breach exposed a database backup from December 2018 which was published on a rival hacking forum. There were 161k unique email addresses spread across 113k forum users and other tables in the database. The exposed data also included usernames, IP addresses, private messages and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, private messages, usernames. The breach dates from Dec 26, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 19, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a OGUsers (2019 breach) account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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