According to reports, the alleged owner and superadministrator of the underground hacking forum BreachForums has been arrested.
The FBI has arrested an individual named Conor Brian FitzPatrick. This person confirmed to law enforcement that the BreachForums owner and administrator used the alias pompompurin.
“When I arrested the defendant on March 15, 2023, he told me: a) his name was Conor Brian FitzPatrick; Used. c) He is the owner and administrator of the data breach website ‘BreachForums’ referred to in the complaint,” said FBI Special Agent John Longmire.
Sales of unauthorized access terminals According to Pompompurin’s affidavit, Fitzpatrick was charged with “conspiracy to solicit individuals for the purpose of selling unauthorized access devices.”
The suspect was released on a $300,000 bond and is expected to appear in the Eastern District of Virginia court later this week.
Until then, he has filed papers and is only allowed to travel within the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Eastern District of Virginia in preparation for his trial. An accomplice, or is said to be forbidden to associate with a co-conspirator, but no other names are mentioned.
BreachForums is probably one of the most popular hacking forums today. Every time a threat actor compromises a business network or endpoint, or steals sensitive data, they post it on BreachForums.
For example, data stolen in a Covid app breach in Shanghai last summer was eventually put up for sale on a forum where a cybercriminal dubbed XJP promoted a database containing sensitive information about 48.5 million users. Did. In another incident last summer, he demanded $30,000 in exchange for thousands of his Twitter accounts.
Via: BleepingComputer (opens in new tab)
