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Hacking forum gets hacked for the second time in a year
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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 05:26:52 +0000 (UTC)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacking-forum-gets-hacked-for-the-second-time-in-a-year/ By Catalin Cimpanu Zero Day ZDNet.com April 3, 2020OGUsers, one of the most popular hacking forums on the internet, disclosed today a security breach, the second such incident in the past year.
"It appears that someone was able to breach the server through a shell in avatar uploading in the forum software and get access to our current database dating April 2, 2020," said Ace, the forum's administrator.
The attacker is believed to have stolen the details of more than 200,000 users, the latest user counter listed on the forum.
The brief announcement was spotted by data breach monitoring service Under the Breach before the forum was put into maintenance mode by its administrators a few hours ago.
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