Hacking forum for trading stolen credentials hacked by other hackers
OGusers, a popular forum for trading stolen account credentials, has itself been hacked and details of members were published on another hacking forum.
The hackĀ started with an administrator telling users May 12 that a hard drive failure had erased a few months worth of private messages and forums posts, but a backup from January had brought the site back, minus more recent activity.
That āhard drive failureā wasnāt all that it seemed, however. The administrator of rival hacking community RaidForumsĀ uploaded the entire OGusers database for free May 16.Ā The database holdsĀ usernames, email addresses, hashed passwords, private messages and IP address for nearly 113,000 users.
AlthoughĀ the passwords may have been hashed, the encryption method was MD5, an older form of encryption that can easily be hacked, putting the passwords of all users of the forum at risk.
āI have uploaded the data from this database breach along with their website source files,ā an administrator wrote on RaidForums. āTheir hashing algorithm was the default salted MD5 which surprised me, anyway the website owner has acknowledged data corruption but not a breach so I guess Iām the first to tell you the truthā¦. according to his statement he didnāt have any recent backups so I guess I will provide one on this thread lmfao.ā
Suffice it to say, OGusers members are not impressed with the news, with some fearing that the hack may have been orchestrated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation since the forum also covers SIM swapping.
Ironically, after the hack had been disclosed, an OGusers administrator said that though he understands everyoneās frustration, āyou must realize other sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, Forums you have used in the past, and many more have been breached at least once.ā
Thereās no evidence that the FBI or other law enforcement agencies were behind the hack, but now that the user database is online, itās likely that they will be taking a deep interest in it.
The last word should go to Brian Krebs, who was one of the first to detail the hack Saturday. āItās difficult not to admit feeling a bit of schadenfreude in response to this event,ā Krebs wrote. āItās gratifying to see such a comeuppance for a community that has largely specialized in hacking others.ā
Image: RaidForums
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