OGUsers (2021 breach) Data Breach

What happened?

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.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is April 11, 2021. The record was added to the catalogue on May 16, 2022 and last updated there on May 16, 2022.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• IP addresses
• Passwords
• 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 (2021 breach) or used ogusers.com around April 11, 2021. 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.