r/oopsec is a subreddit with 5k members. The most common kinds of discussions are news and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses opsec, arrest, hacker, hack, and scam.
“Oops! Security fail!”. A community documenting Opsec fails.
Popular Themes in r/oopsec
#1
News
: "Andrew Tate revealing his location to Romanian authorities via pizza box while trying to roast Greta Thunberg"
37 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "OpSec FAIL of The Week | "igogrraawwr" Busted"
4 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "Why you shouldn't just use sharpies to redact information"
3 posts
#4
Solution Requests
: "Crosspost from r/privacy: "Spouse has been doxxed and threatened on YouTube. We have kids and I’m terrified. I want to remove all our personal information from the internet. What’s the best service or is it faster to take a day (or two off work) and do it myself?""
2 posts
#5
Money Talk
: "Amazon Basics Vacuum Compression Storage Bags With Hand Pump, Medium, 5-Pack, White, Sky Blue{EXP: 09/17}[27% OF{$18.74}"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/oopsec
#1
Opsec
: "Opsec FAIL of The Week | "igogrraawwr" Busted"
22 posts
#2
Arrest
: "10 SIM Swappers Arrested for Stealing $100M in Crypto from Celebrities"
15 posts
#3
Hacker
: "Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina’s entire population"
7 posts
#4
Hack
: "TIL that in 1999, a group of Hackers discovered that they could enter any Hotmail account by simply entering “eh” as a password. It was fixed by Microsoft within two hours."
6 posts
#5
Scam
: "Fake Call Centre Busted: Scammers From This Noida Office Made Rs 40 Lakh A Day By Cheating Americans, 84 Arrested"
6 posts
#6
Crypto
: "10 SIM Swappers Arrested for Stealing $100M in Crypto from Celebrities"
6 posts
#7
Security
: "A job ad blunder by the UK's Ministry of Defence has accidentally revealed the existence of a secret SAS mobile hacker squad."
6 posts
#8
Arrested
: "10 SIM Swappers Arrested for Stealing $100M in Crypto from Celebrities"
5 posts
#9
Dark Web
: "Tennessee Man Arrested After Paying Dark Web Hitman $17,853 to Murder His Wife - Dark Net Daily (Paid for contract in bitcoins directly from exchange linked to KYC info)"
5 posts
#10
Drugs
: "Female Darknet Vendor “RaptureReloaded” Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison (Used credit cards to pay for postage to send Drugs)"
5 posts
Flair Used in r/oopsec
#1
Organization opsec
: "Reporter finds that state website has SSNs in HTML code, is now threatened prosecution for viewing website source."
28 posts
#2
Caught
: "Fake Call Centre Busted: Scammers From This Noida Office Made Rs 40 Lakh A Day By Cheating Americans, 84 Arrested"
16 posts
#3
Justice
: "Female Darknet Vendor “RaptureReloaded” Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison (Used credit cards to pay for postage to send drugs)"
14 posts
#4
Victim
: "WCGW with sharing your achievements on the Internet? Please be careful, friends."
6 posts
#5
Victimized
: "New York Times Doxxes Source Trafficked by Chinese Gang"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/oopsec
Yearly
+346 members(7.0%)
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Last updated: September 21, 2026