An FBI officer has arrested a former administrator and owner of an infamous hacker forum that exposed data on companies such as HDB Financial Services, Rail Yatri, Acer, WhatsApp, Truecaller India, Hyundai India, Skoda India, etc.
According to the FBI, a man was arrested last week who is suspected of being "Pumpompurin", the administrator of the infamous and popular BreachForums website. As soon as the cybercrime website's new administrator was informed of the arrest and the arrest of its administrators, he announced plans to close the forum down permanently.
According to the FBI, a New York man has been arrested on suspicion of being Pompompurin, the owner of the BreachForums hacking forum.
Documents filed in court indicate that he is charged with conspiracy to solicit an individual to sell an unauthorized access device.
A defendant, Connor Brian Fitzpatrick, was allegedly arrested on the charge of fraud and admitted to being Connor Brian Fitzpatrick during his arrest. It was also revealed that the person who owned the Breach Forums cybercrime forum was Pompourin, who is the owner of the forum.
The suspect, Conon Brian Fitzpatrick, who is known to the public as "Pompompurin" or "Pom" has earned a high-profile status online for several years now. He has been a target of authorities for quite some time. Fitzpatrick claimed responsibility for the November 2021 attack on an FBI server under the pseudonym Pompompurin, before the breachforums.com website was founded in 2022 by him.
A million fake cybersecurity emails were sent from the FBI's eims@is.fbi.gov address at the time of Fitzpatrick's alleged exploit in 2021 based on the false information they were provided by Fitzpatrick. A series of emails, containing the subject lines “threat actor in systems” and describing the attack as “a sophisticated chain attack” on your virtualized clusters, were sent out claiming that their intelligence monitoring reported the exfiltration of several of your virtualized clusters.
There was an operation by U.S. and European law enforcement agencies in April 2022 that led to the takedown of RaidForums, one of the most popular regular internet forums for hackers at the time. Having been a regular member of Raid Forums, Fitzpatrick is known to have become the most popular successor site to Raid Forums after it was demolished.
There are countless hacking stories linked to BreachForums since its creation because it quickly developed into one of the most popular sites for selling stolen data, especially among independent hackers and other groups that are not associated with ransomware gangs or other ransomware threats.
In the cybercriminal underground, Pompompurin has gained a reputation of a very well-known player involved in a wide range of activities including hacking companies, and selling or leaking stolen data through forums and social media networks.
The Raid Forum's cybercrime forum was also a well-known forum where he was active.
It was an initiative of Pompourin to fill the void left by RaidForums' seizure by the FBI in 2022 by founding an independent forum called 'BreachForums.'
In recent years, it has been one of the largest forums of its kind, used by malicious users of ransomware and hackers to leak stolen information to the public.
Earlier this week, a threat actor attempted to use BreachForums to sell the personally identifiable information of U.S. politicians that had been breached in a breach in Washington.
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Pompompurin has also been involved in various high-profile breaches of high-profile companies over the years, as BreachForums has become a force in cybercrime.
Several breaches have been reported, including sending bogus cyberattack emails through a vulnerability in the FBI's Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP), stealing customer data from Robinhood, and allegedly confirming the email addresses of 5.4 million Twitter users using a bug.
