OGUsers - Stolen social media account black market for paedophile script kiddies

[Xenomorph]

this was so autistic i zoned out half way through, cool op but man what a fucking "buisiness"

ps: how much for Wint?

 

[Toolbox]

I know Minecraft's been mentioned but I'd like to see the shitstorm that goes up around Roblox account names. The age of the game + the community it has is just asking for drama.

Edit: Plus it's essentially got a social media side, even after the forums were gutted. Roblox "groups" especially make special names something people fight over.

 

[wes]

Back in its heyday, Tumblr URLs were the same thing. I remember people forking over $200 just to have their blog URL be a Pokemon or an anime character. There was a subculture around Pokemon URLs specifically, people used to use the "#pokemon url" hashtag on the site to sell/trade URLs (which is against Tumblr TOS) or even socialize. I also remember people throwing full-on tantrums about how they couldn't get a coveted Pokemon URL.

If only we could go back to the simple times of usernames like startrekfan_87 or rosesandbutterflies1990.

EDIT: Forgot to say excellent OP, man. I knew people who obsessed over tiny URLs were freaks, but I never imagined that they were this freaky.

 

[karz]

Now if there were people that are worthy of the moniker "faggot" it's these speds.
Christ, killing an old man for a twitter handle. That's fucking sad.

 

[Don Yagon]

This is a modern day equivalent of hunting five-digit ICQ UINs, and just like with anything other modern, much more depraved and autistic.

 

[Govt. Shitposting Machine]

Back in its heyday, Tumblr URLs were the same thing. I remember people forking over $200 just to have their blog URL be a Pokemon or an anime character. There was a subculture around Pokemon URLs specifically, people used to use the "#pokemon url" hashtag on the site to sell/trade URLs (which is against Tumblr TOS) or even socialize. I also remember people throwing full-on tantrums about how they couldn't get a coveted Pokemon URL.

If only we could go back to the simple times of usernames like startrekfan_87 or rosesandbutterflies1990.

EDIT: Forgot to say excellent OP, man. I knew people who obsessed over tiny URLs were freaks, but I never imagined that they were this freaky.

I won't lie I was one of those people that when a new franchise was announced I'd hoard a Tumblr URL just for shits and giggles, thankfully I wasn't a victim of anything like doxing or SWAT calls. This was very early on before the site had gotten to the state we all recognize it for today, though.

An incident I remember was someone I followed changed their URL (some anime characters name with an s at the end, ie: renkos, those kind of URLs are very popular) to see if they'd like it. She realized it "didn't fit their blogs aes" or whatever but literally within those 5 minutes someone else already took it.
She had such a fucking meltdown with crytyping, attempting to sic her followers after the other person, sending death threats, and was threatening to overdose on Xanax if she didn't get it back. She did not.
She ended up deleting her account entirely because other people were annoyed with her entire shitfit. Oh, if only I had the braincells to archive it then it was fucking comedy gold.

 

[419]

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Kiwi Farms users are officially penetration testers now for knowing how to use archive.today. Thank you Sleep, very cool!


(new "notable individual" section added to the OP. stay tuned for more)

 

[sienna]

hoarding usernames is a surprisingly profitable business if you get in early enough - i've had some short, memorable handles over the past few years either through cheap deals or just straight getting lucky. during early 2020, i was offered $500 for an old minecraft account with a spiffy handle that i'd created for a friend in the early java days. obviously, i took the money.

i think the account was about $25 when i originally purchased it? i mean, fuck, a 20x profit for an account that'd hardly been used post-2013? i guess it was worth keeping the credentials for. recently looked up the username on the minecraft aggregator namemc, where i found it had 959 searches / month. i'll never understand why (((some))) people take it such extremes, though.

 

[1-800-GAMBLER]

They also post on TikTok, probably to brag to normies who don't understand what they're seeing. They look hilarious if you do. Here's some.

Using Ping of Death on 1.1.1.1 lol (40k likes)

https://www.tiktok.com/@ogu0001/video/7073216128272583978?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1

This shit

https://www.tiktok.com/@bawl

 

[419]

Seeing as this thread has been moved out to CW now, I am still working on adding a little bit more new information (ideally any occurrences of OGU people stirring shit in other public spheres like YouTube comments and Twitch channels) and some snippets of old by-gone shit from the scene. For now, please accept this meagre addition to the existing PlugWalkJoe section in the OP in the form of his arrest warrant following the Twitter hack.

More notably, as is often a running theme for some of these cases, the warrant outlines in detail how O'Connor effectively snitched on himself immediately after the hack by directly phoning his handlers saying "i dindu nuffin".

After the July 15, 2020 Twitter hack became public, C.T. received a series of text messages from the individual he believed to be O’Connor who was using the telephone number 304-745-0329. In the initial text message, the sender said, in part, “Hey, its joe,” and later stated, “Kirk#5270 this is the twitter hacker.” The individual who C.T. believed to be O’Connor subsequently called the REACT Task Force general number from 678-685-9876 at 1:54 PM PDT on July 22, 2020, and left a voicemail. C.T. informed me he listened to the voicemail and believed the voice on the voicemail to be the same as the individual who had previously identified himself as O’Connor. The caller identified himself as “Joe” and “pwj” and requested to be contacted at 678-685-9876. The caller stated it was regarding the Twitter hack and that he had nothing to do with it. Additionally, on July 22, 2020, a message was submitted via REACT’s online tip line. The submission form listed the name as “pwj,” the email address as daiseymorrowphamsc53@gmail.com, the associated IP address as 195.206.107.147, a message that provided the telephone number 678-685-9876, and requested someone to “text me on my new GV [Google Voice] please.” I believe “pwj” to be shorthand for “plugwalkjoe.” Furthermore, I am aware that the IP address 195.206.107.147 is associated with other accounts that I believe have been used by O’Connor, as discussed below.

Throughout the interview, the individual was referred to by investigators as “Mr. O’Connor” and “Joe,” though at no point did agents ask the individual to identify his full name. The individual, however, did refer to his online moniker “PlugwalkJoe.”

 

[I'mma real anime gurl]

These fucks instead of fucking outing Jack Dorsey or revealed dms, decided to run crypto scams and fucking make their account say nigger. The only silver lining to all of it is that they inadvertently revealed the fact they can shadowban people. This is why wiggers should be treated like niggers.

 

[419]

While we're on the topic of large-scale hacks and high-profile figures, this seems like a good time to go over a particularly old case.



Meet Eric Tristan Taylor, better known by the moniker CosmoTheGod. Cosmo was once a very high-profile figure in the hacking scene with a fairly extensive list of run-ins with the law and other corners of the Internet. His "accomplishments" from that time include, as cobbled together from publications such as KrebsOnSecurity and WIRED:

• Running the site exposed.su for the express purpose of doxing well-known individuals from celebrities to politicians and public officials, including the then-director of the FBI, US Attorney General and even former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama
• DDoS'ing and hijacking the sites of several multi-national tech, financial and entertainment companies such as NASDAQ, the CIA, UFC, CloudFlare and many more
• Hijacking 4chan's DNS to redirect to the Twitter feed of his hacking group UGNazi
• Hoarding large numbers of accounts for services like Amazon, AOL, Apple, PayPal, Microsoft (Xbox, Outlook etc.)
• Repeated SIM swap attacks on multiple telecom companies usually involving an insider at the company

...all at the age of merely 15. Further antics on more isolated circles of the Internet include run-ins with other "lesser" skids such as Mikevirus and ev0, usually consisting of a round of doxing them and their families. Despite such a lengthy list of offences, however, Cosmo is widely believed to be one of the people who got off the luckiest in the eyes of the law from such a career, having been tried as a minor and hence earning nothing more than a long probationary period of supervised Internet access from that point forward.

Shortly after adulthood, however, he would once again receive only a probation for another three years, at the expense of becoming a dirty fed-enabler and assisting the FBI in an investigation of theirs. Following that, Cosmo would appear to be going through a period of reformation, as per an interview with CNBC circa 2018.

“I went after people that in my mind at the time thought deserved it. But now that I reflect on it, nobody deserves to get their information stolen because it’s an invasion of privacy,” Taylor said.

Fast-forward some years to today, wherein the Kiwi Farms is dealing with the threats of the increasingly-shady DDoS filtering provider Path. Out of curiosity, aside from the current supposed COO of the company already notorious for a history of incidents relating to the abuse of children, who else might we find working at this company?

Eric Taylor a.k.a Cosmo The God, also works for Path as you can see from his Twitter.
Thought it would be interesting to note this, it really does seem like the entire company is filled with hackers from around this time, and I wouldn't be surprised if Corey and Cosmo are somehow connected.
For some context he was pretty notorious back in 2012 for social engineering and hacking into various types of accounts:

Cosmo, the Hacker 'God' Who Fell to Earth

I met Cosmo by accident and opportunity, after hackers used social-engineering techniques to circumvent Apple's and Amazon’s security mechanisms and break into my accounts. After it happened I fell into their world and began communicating regularly with the very hacker who jacked me, a kid named...

www.wired.com

https://archive.ph/r1BnF

 

[BIGBOSSBRIAN]

you're simply mad because you're poor BIGBOSSBRIAN on top

 

[Toolbox]

you're simply mad because you're poor BIGBOSSBRIAN on top

Nigger, who even are you and why did you necro this thread?

 

[wlan0]

you're simply mad because you're poor BIGBOSSBRIAN on top

Literally who???

 

[Toolbox]

Literally who???

A cursory look up of the poster's username just brings up some random and abandoned accounts so I really don't even get what reason this guy came here for besides attention.

 

[419]

Very meager content update, but I figured it might be worth bringing attention to it. So far matters relating to OGUsers have been rather quiet, with much of the more interesting shit they've been involved in being further and further in the past and requiring more research by now to really flesh out here. However, I feel like there may be a renaissance coming not too long from now.

So ever since Discord began gradually rolling out its new username system, the current iteration(s) of OGU have obviously found a brand new market to tap into. For example, have a look at some of the following listings (EDIT: actually on PlayerUp.com) for account names and the absolutely ludicrous prices that some of them go for. That's right, you too can be the proud owner of the Discord username "kek" for about double the cost of a new 2023 Honda fucking Civic!



And if you think it's limited only to sales then you'd be mistaken. Plenty of people are even willing to look for and track down owners of the usernames that they so dearly want to have on a platform that doesn't even have public-facing profiles in the same vein as Twitter and Instagram!




Should also mention it's come to my attention that while OGU is generally regarded as one of the main marketplaces for such activity, a number of other forums out there have actually been following suit and providing marketplaces for accounts and usernames. The earlier screenshot showing the $50,000 listing for "kek" actually comes from another forum called PlayerUp, with other forums providing the same service including SWAPD, Nulled and formerly BreachForums before they were taken down.

If need be, I may see about looking into these other sites further to see what info could be dug up on them.

 

[Sprate Header]

Should also mention it's come to my attention that while OGU is generally regarded as one of the main marketplaces for such activity, a number of other forums out there have actually been following suit and providing marketplaces for accounts and usernames. The earlier screenshot showing the $50,000 listing for "kek" actually comes from another forum called PlayerUp, with other forums providing the same service including SWAPD, Nulled and formerly BreachForums before they were taken down.

If need be, I may see about looking into these other sites further to see what info could be dug up on them.

Good idea, I remember Sam Hyde mentioning at the end of his Qanon video that he bought his @wigger Twitter account on SWAPD.

Also, would Nulled happen to have any connection to the NulledCast, that time a bunch of Comm kids hacked into Ring cameras and harassed families over the cameras' mics while live on a private Discord?

 

[Anonitolia]

Very meager content update, but I figured it might be worth bringing attention to it. So far matters relating to OGUsers have been rather quiet, with much of the more interesting shit they've been involved in being further and further in the past and requiring more research by now to really flesh out here. However, I feel like there may be a renaissance coming not too long from now.

So ever since Discord began gradually rolling out its new username system, the current iteration(s) of OGU have obviously found a brand new market to tap into. For example, have a look at some of the following listings (EDIT: actually on PlayerUp.com) for account names and the absolutely ludicrous prices that some of them go for. That's right, you too can be the proud owner of the Discord username "kek" for about double the cost of a new 2023 Honda fucking Civic!

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And if you think it's limited only to sales then you'd be mistaken. Plenty of people are even willing to look for and track down owners of the usernames that they so dearly want to have on a platform that doesn't even have public-facing profiles in the same vein as Twitter and Instagram!

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I would ask what Discord staff thought would happen when they did this but I know they don't have brains to think with so I won't bother

 

[1-800-GAMBLER]

Sleep The God

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