OGUsers (2021 breach) data breach: 348K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-05-16
In April 2021, the account hijacking and SIM swapping forum OGusers suffered a data breach, the fourth since December 2018. The breach was subsequently sold on a rival hacking forum and contained usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as either salted MD5 or argon2 hashes. A total of 348k unique email addresses appeared in the breach. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Apr 11, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 16, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a OGUsers (2021 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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