OGUsers (2020 breach) Data Breach

What happened?

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.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is April 2, 2020. The record was added to the catalogue on April 4, 2020 and last updated there on April 4, 2020.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• IP addresses
• Passwords
• Private messages
• Usernames

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with OGUsers (2020 breach) or used ogusers.com around April 2, 2020. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.