Security News > 2024 > May > FBI Seizes BreachForums Website

The FBI has seized the BreachForums website, used by ransomware criminals to leak stolen corporate data.

The FBI is requesting victims and individuals contact them with information about the hacking forum and its members to aid in their investigation.

The seizure messages include ways to contact the FBI about the seizure, including an email, a Telegram account, a TOX account, and a dedicated page hosted on the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center.

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the criminal hacking forums known as BreachForums and Raidforums," reads a dedicated subdomain on the FBI's IC3 portal.

"From June 2023 until May 2024, BreachForums was operating as a clear-net marketplace for cybercriminals to buy, sell, and trade contraband, including stolen access devices, means of identification, hacking tools, breached databases, and other illegal services."

"Previously, a separate version of BreachForums operated a similar hacking forum from March 2022 until March 2023. Raidforums was the predecessor hacking forum to both version of BreachForums and ran from early 2015 until February 2022.".

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