BreachForums: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

BreachForums
	Screenshot BreachForums homepage (March 19, 2023)
Type of site	Internet forum
Available in	English
Dissolved	March 21, 2023; 4 months ago
Predecessor(s)	RaidForums
Country of origin	United States
Founder(s)	Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, also known by his screen name “pompompurin”
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Advertising	Yes
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Users	336,800 at time of shutdown
Launched	March 4, 2022; 16 months ago
Current status	Defunct

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Defunct cybercrime forum

BreachForums was an English-language black hat hacking crime forum active from 2022 to 2023. The website acted as an alternative and later successor to RaidForums following its shutdown and seizure in 2022.^[1]^[2] Like its predecessor, BreachForums allowed for the discussion of various hacking topics and distributed data breaches, pornography, hacking tools and various other services.

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 ”’BreachForums”’ was an English-language [[Black hat (computer security)|black hat hacking]] [[crime forum]] active from 2022 to 2023. The website acted as an alternative and later successor to [[RaidForums]] following its shutdown and seizure in 2022.{{cite web |title=Welcome & FAQ Thread {{pipe}} BreachForums |url=https://breached.vc/Thread-Welcome-FAQ-Thread |website=BreachForums |access-date=March 28, 2023 |ref=1 |archive-date=December 18, 2022 |date=March 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218104739/https://breached.vc/Thread-Welcome-FAQ-Thread }}{{cite news |title=Justice Department Announces Arrest of the Founder of One of the World’s Largest Hacker Forums and Disruption of Forum’s Operation |url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-arrest-founder-one-world-s-largest-hacker-forums-and-disruption |access-date=March 28, 2023 |publisher=[[United States Department of Justice]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328105555/https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-arrest-founder-one-world-s-largest-hacker-forums-and-disruption |ref=2 |archive-date=March 28, 2023}} Like its predecessor, BreachForums allowed for the discussion of various hacking topics and distributed [[data breach]]es, pornography, hacking tools and various other services.
+On March 21, 2023, BreachForums was shutdown following the arrest of the forum’s owner, Conor Brian Fitzpatrick. A separate instance of the forum using the domain “breachforums.vc” was opened on June 12, 2023, but it shares no relation to the ownership of the original forum.{{Cite news |archive-date=June 18, 2023 |date=June 14, 2023 |orig-date=March 21, 2023 |title=BreachForums down, and will not be back |publisher=DataBreaches.net |url=https://www.databreaches.net/breachforums-down-and-will-not-be-back/ |access-date=2023-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618213010/https://www.databreaches.net/breachforums-down-and-will-not-be-back/}}
-On June 12, 2023, a new instance of the forum using the domain “breachforums.is” was opened by the ShinyHunters hacker group and the previous co-founder Baphomet.
 == History ==

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