BreachForums—probably the largest dark web marketplace for stolen data to be leaked and sold—has been seized by law enforcement.Now, both the regular and the TOR domain of BreachForums are plastered with a message telling visitors the site is now under control of the FBI.
Raidforums ran from early 2015 until February 2022. The first iteration of BreachForums was then set up in March 2022 and ran until March 2023, when US law enforcement arrested the alleged operator, “Pompompurin”, in New York.
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Source: Malware bytes labs
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