OGUsers (2022 breach) Data Breach

What happened

In July 2022, the account hijacking and SIM swapping forum OGusers suffered a data breach, the fifth since December 2018. The breach contained usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as argon2 hashes. A total of 529k unique email addresses appeared in the breach.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your OGUsers (2022 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 (2022 breach) — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.