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Dark forum site operator, ‘Pompompurin’, was arrested this week by U.S. law enforcement on the charge of conspiracy to commit access device fraud. One Conor Brian Fitzpatrick was arrested in his home where he admitted this alias and to owning and administrating the website, BreachForums, well-known across the cybercrime ecosystem for hosting stolen databases and selling personal data for fraudulent activities. Officials reported that Fitzpatrick had been under close investigation for over a year before the arrest.
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After the DoJ announced the successful seizure of the RaidForums website in April of 2022, it was widely speculated that Fitzpatrick created BreachForums as its successor. Since then, BreachForums has gained notoriety for being one of the most active hacker forums available to cybercriminals.
Under the Pompompurin alias, Fitpatrick quickly filled in the gap of selling and leaking sensitive information through social media, propelling the site to becoming one of the largest data leak forums of its kind. Fitzpatrick has also been connected to various high-profile cyberattacks, including those involving the FBI, Twitter, and popular online stock trading platform, Robinhood. At the time of its takedown, BreachForums had more than 330000 members, 47000 threads, and almost one million posts.
Though the site is now defunct, these seizures remain critical in the uphill fight against increasingly sophisticated cybercrime syndicates. BreachForums was just one of many leak sites and dark marketplaces causing ongoing damage to government organizations and enterprises of all industries. Just as BreachForums rose from the ashes of RaidForums, it is vital for businesses to remain vigilant with protecting their data from opportunistic threat actors as new forums inevitably continue to propagate.
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