It’s been four years since the online hacking forum OGUsers created a massive community focused on selling and buying access to gaming and social media handles. However, even the enemy has enemies.
The scoop
OGUsers has been hacked for the fourth time in two years. The hacking forum’s database consisting of private messages and user records for almost 350,000 members is on sale now for $3,000. The hack occurred on April 11 and the attackers gained access to the entire forum database, which was probably caused due to the vulnerabilities in the plugins used by the hacking forum.
Why does this matter?
Hackers hacking hackers and leaking databases are potentially beneficial to law enforcement agencies and security researchers. This OGUsers database leak can expose threat actors from their registered email accounts and IP addresses and find their real identities.
More hacker forums hacked
- Swarmshop, an online cybercriminal card shop, was hacked and the database containing stolen payment card data was leaked online. The database consists of 623,036 records from victims in Canada, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, France, China, the U.S., the U.K, Mexico, and Singapore, with 498 sets of bank account credentials and 69,592 sets of U.S. social security numbers and Canadian social insurance numbers.
- In March, the invite-only cybercrime forum Mazafaka was hacked and thousands of usernames, obfuscated passwords, and email addresses were dumped on the dark web.
- ZHtrap is another IoT botnet that deployed honeypots to hijack rival botnet infrastructure.
The bottom line
It is not bad news when hacker forums are hacked but it doesn’t guarantee these forums shutting down. Organizations and individuals are being hacked daily, and it is up to us to stay safe from them.
Source: https://cyware.com/news/hacking-the-hackers-ogusers-hacked-again-3b26f185
