{"id":306870,"date":"2019-05-20T08:10:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T06:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=306870"},"modified":"2019-05-20T08:11:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T06:11:12","slug":"hacking-forum-gets-attacked-by-other-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/306870-hacking-forum-gets-attacked-by-other-hackers.html","title":{"rendered":"Hacking forum gets attacked by other hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular hacker forum OGusers.com has been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, and private message history of users, <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2019\/05\/account-hijacking-forum-ogusers-hacked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>KrebsOnSecurity<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Information for over 113,000 users was exposed in the attack, including the IP addresses of users.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, OGusers is a forum popular among people who conduct SIM-swop attacks and attempt to hijack online accounts.<\/p>\n<p>On 12 May 2019, OGusers administrators noted that several months&#8217; worth of information was wiped from the website&#8217;s storage, a result of attackers breaching and stealing the forum&#8217;s user database and wiping drives.<\/p>\n<p>A user posted all the stolen details on rival hacking community RaidForums on 16 May 2019, allowing hackers to download the information for free.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the 12th of May 2019 the forum ogusers.com was breached [and] 112,988 users were affected,\u201d RaidForums administrator Omnipotent posted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have uploaded the data from this database breach along with their website source files.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/306822-hacktivism-has-declined-by-95-since-2015.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hacktivism has declined by 95% since 2015<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular hacker forum OGusers.com has been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, and private message history of users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":160024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[59082,199,40760,59084],"class_list":["post-306870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-forum","tag-hackers","tag-krebsonsecurity","tag-ogusers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}