Here's the backstory of the notorious account hijacking forum
The hacker’s forum called OGUsers has ironically been a tempting target for criminals, with a series of at least three successful hacking attempts in the past couple of years: Once in May 2019, a second time in March 2020, and a third time just last week.
The forum trades in gathering up and reselling private users' data collections, including social media and gaming identities, some of which have sold for thousands of dollars. The group began operations in April 2017 to sell shorter usernames (such as Adrian Lamo’s unused Twitter account, @6). They now have more than 50,000 registered users who have generated millions of posts, with about 1,000 of them active at least daily. Brian Krebs, who has been following the OGUsers hacks, documents this latest attempt, calling it “schadenfraud,” a play on the German word for those who feel satisfaction at others’ problems.
There are numerous such operations across the dark web, that great underbelly of the internet which deals in drugs, deviants, directories of criminal hackers and compromised domains – all of which are for sale, cryptocurrency preferred. Most of these dark web denizens are scammers and swindlers, looking to separate you from your cash and steal your data. Lately, they have gotten more adept at trading in sophisticated exploits and malware tools that can avoid many detection efforts.
Some of the groups that collect this kind of data aren’t scammers, but instead, legitimate data brokers. We talk about some of these data brokers in an earlier b ..
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