The founder of the infamous hacking forum BreachForums could face five years in prison.
The 20-year-old was arrested on March 15, 2023.
- BreachForums is a hacker forum that was created in March 2022. The forum was created shortly after RaidForums, another similar forum, was shut down by law authorities.
- BreachForums enabled hackers to trade stolen data such as:
- bank account information,
- Social Security numbers,
- tools,
- databases containing personally identifying information, etc.
- As more information has been published, it has now been understood that undercover FBI agents purchased five sets of data as a way of communicating with the forum's founder.
- The founder, named Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, used the same VPNs and IP addresses to log into the email account conorfitzpatrick2002 [at] gmail.com, the Conor Fitzpatrick Purse.io account, the pompompurin account on RaidForums, and the pompompurin account on BreachForums, among other accounts, according to the FBI.
- Due to his not using a VPN on the TOR browser, law authorities were able to confirm his identity and arrest him.
