OGUsers (2020 breach) data breach: 263K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-04-04
In April 2020, the account hijacking and SIM swapping forum OGUsers suffered their second data breach in less than a year. As with the previous breach, the exposed data included email and IP addresses, usernames, private messages and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. A total of 263k email addresses across user accounts and other tables were posted to a rival hacking forum. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, private messages, usernames. The breach dates from Apr 2, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 4, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a OGUsers (2020 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.
Sources
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