The notorious BreachForums online hacker marketplace appears to have been seized yet again. This time, it has been claimed by fellow hacktivst gang the Dark Storm Team – the same group believed responsible for last month’s massive outage of Elon Musk’s X.
It all coincides with rumors swirling on social media Tuesday about the arrest of “IntelBroker,” one of BreachForums’ major players.
The pro-Palestinian hacktivist group posted about the Breached takeover on its Dark Storm Team telegram channel early Tuesday morning (ET), claiming to have carried out the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack “for fun.”
Just days after reporting on the Samsung Tickets data breach, another massive leak has surfaced, this time targeting Royal Mail Group, a British institution with over 500 years of history.
On April 2, 2025, a threat actor known as “GHNA” posted on BreachForums, announcing the release of 144GB of data stolen from Royal Mail Group. The breach, once again facilitated through Spectos, a third-party service provider, exposes personally identifiable information (PII) of customers, confidential documents, internal Zoom meeting video recordings, delivery location datasets, a WordPress SQL database for mailagents.uk, Mailchimp mailing lists, and more.
Oracle denies it was breached after a threat actor claimed to be selling 6 million data records allegedly stolen from the company's Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers
The private member information of the BreachForums v1 hacking forum from 2022 has been leaked online, allowing threat actors and researchers to gain insight into its users.
The online criminal bazaar BreachForums has been resurrected merely two weeks after a U.S.-led coordinated law enforcement action dismantled and seized control of its infrastructure.
Cybersecurity researchers and dark web trackers Brett Callow, Dark Web Informer, and FalconFeeds revealed the site's online return at breachforums[.]st – one of the dismantled sites – by a user named ShinyHunters, who has since offered for sale a 1.3 TB database containing details of allegedly 560 million Ticketmaster customers for $500,000.
The cybercrime and hacker forum Breach Forums has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice.
Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link confirmed a data breach linked to information stolen from its network and put up for sale on BreachForums earlier this month.
Cyble reflects on the identification of a forum administrator and two cybercriminals and how it impacts the wider cybercrime ecosystem.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely first show up for sale. The forum's…
