Security News > 2023 > March > 20-Year-Old BreachForums Founder Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 20-year-old founder and the administrator of the now-defunct BreachForums has been formally charged in the U.S. with conspiracy to commit access device fraud.

If proven guilty, Fitzpatrick, who went by the online moniker "Pompompurin," faces a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison.

BreachForums, per Fitzpatrick, was created in March 2022 to fill the void left by RaidForums, which was taken down a month before as part of an international law enforcement operation.

Fitzpatrick's links to pompompurin came from nine IP addresses associated with service provider Verizon that Pompompurin used to access the pompompurin account on RaidForums and a major OPSEC failure on the defendant's part.

"Records received from Verizon, in turn, revealed that IP address 74.101.151.4 was registered to a customer with the last name Fitzpatrick at."

In yet another OPSEC error, Fitzpatrick made the mistake of logging into BreachForums on June 27, 2022, without using a VPN service or the TOR browser, thereby exposing the real IP address.

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