FBI Seizes BreachForums Website
The FBI has seized the BreachForums website, used by ransomware criminals to leak stolen corporate data.
If law enforcement has gained access to the hacking forumβs backend data, as they claim, they would have email addresses, IP addresses, and private messages that could expose members and be used in law enforcement investigations.
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The FBI is requesting victims and individuals contact them with information about the hacking forum and its members to aid in their investigation.
The seizure messages include ways to contact the FBI about the seizure, including an email, a Telegram account, a TOX account, and a dedicated page hosted on the FBIβs Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).
βThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the criminal hacking forums known as BreachForums and Raidforums,β reads a dedicated subdomain on the FBIβs IC3 portal.
βFrom June 2023 until May 2024, BreachForums (hosted at breachforums.st/.cx/.is/.vc and run by ShinyHunters) was operating as a clear-net marketplace for cybercriminals to buy, sell, and trade contraband, including stolen access devices, means of identification, hacking tools, breached databases, and other illegal services.β
βPreviously, a separate version of BreachForums (hosted at breached.vc/.to/.co and run by pompompurin) operated a similar hacking forum from March 2022 until March 2023. Raidforums (hosted at raidforums.com and run by Omnipotent) was the predecessor hacking forum to both version of BreachForums and ran from early 2015 until February 2022.β