Do Son A Canadian man pleaded guilty to a cloud hacking extortion scheme that hit 165 companies and stole billions of records. DOJ confirms the plea.
BreachForums
Law enforcement from 14 countries just seized LeakBase.ws. With 142k accounts and 215k messages exposed, the DOJ sends a clear message: No hacker is anonymous.
Following a data leak, emails from the French Ministry of the Interior's domain invited hackers to the 'new' BreachForums. The community warns it is likely a highly sophisticated honeypot.
The founder of BreachForums, Conor Fitzpatrick, has been resentenced to three years in prison after his initial lenient sentence was overturned by a U.S. appeals court.
Notorious hacker "IntelBroker" (Kai West) has been arrested, traced by the FBI through his crypto transactions. He's charged with stealing and selling data, causing $25M in damages.
Fitzpatrick, concurrently one of the founders of the BreachForums, was responsible for the design and construction of its fundamental infrastructure
U.S. Department of Justice, other agencies, and certain members of Interpol announced the seizure of BreachForums' clearnet domain