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Another One Bites the Dust: The (Apparent) End of Breach Forums
The cycle of fraud venue shutdowns continued on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, when Breach Forums administrator Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka “pompompurin”), was arrested and charged with a single count of conspiracy to ...
Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin”
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases ...
FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked
InfraGard, a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact ...
Breach Forums Is Marketing Itself as a Raid Forums Successor
On March 16, just about three weeks after Raid Forums was seized, a threat actor named “pompompurin,” previously highly active on Raid Forums, launched an alternative illicit hacking community called Breach Forums ...
Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake “Emergency Data Requests”
There is a terrifying and highly effective "method" that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. It involves compromising ...
Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. According to an ...
WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info
A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo[.]com, a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from ...
