The world's largest hacker forum has just been hacked, many members like 'sitting on a fire'

OGUsers, one of the most popular hacker forums on the internet, today released details of a cyber attack that the forum suffered a few days ago. Thus, this is the second time in the past 12 months that OGUsers has been the victim of a hack, despite the forum being run by the world's top hackers.

'Some strangers have successfully hacked into our server through an existing flaw in the avatar uploader, which has been gaining access to the forum's database since 2 months. 4 2020, 'Ace, one of the forum's senior administrators said in a statement.

The attackers are believed to have stolen details of more than 200,000 OGUsers members. Currently, this forum has been temporarily closed for administrators to implement troubleshooting measures.

Before entering the maintenance phase, the OGUsers admin team said that they have reset all passwords and urged forum members to quickly activate 2-factor authentication (2FA) for their account. themselves, in order to minimize the data stolen in the hack is used to hijack accounts.

But perhaps the OGUsers members are well qualified to understand the situation they are facing, as well as what to do to protect their accounts.

That being said, this is not the first time OGUsers have been hit by the 'sticking his back', at least in the past 12 months.

OGUsers only really emerged in 2018 when the popular technology website Motherboard identified it as one of the main places on the internet where a large number of hackers were gathering to buy and sell hacked Instagram accounts. In addition, this forum also acts as a training and meeting place for hackers who want to organize dangerous SIM swapping (SIM jacking) attacks.

The rapid popularity of OGUsers has attracted a lot of unwanted attention from 'colleagues'. The first 'face-off' attack occurred in May 2019, taking the personal information of 113,000 OGUsers, wiping out the forum's hard drives and then pitching the stolen data on the forum. Hack opponents.

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It will be very harmful for members of OGUsers if their personal information goes to law enforcement because many members of this forum are involved in cyber security breaches. It also does not exclude the possibility that OGUsers are attacked by white hat hackers to collect necessary information for ongoing investigations.