OGUsers (2019 breach) Data Breach

What happened

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

Recommended actions

• Change your OGUsers (2019 breach) password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing OGUsers (2019 breach) — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.