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Paris Police Claim Arrests of Five BreachForums Admins
- French police arrested five individuals suspected of running the BreachForums cybercrime forum in simultaneous raids in June 2025.
- The arrests follow a long investigation after the 2023 arrest of former admin Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, known as Pompompurin, who was sentenced in 2024.
- The suspects, including four men known as ShinyHunters, Hollow, Noct, and Depressed, face accusations related to data breaches targeting French entities and others.
- The U.S. DOJ confirmed British national Kai West, aka IntelBroker, was arrested in France in February 2025 and faces extradition for causing over $25 million in damages.
- The arrests raise hopes of permanently shutting down BreachForums, which ran until April 2025 and sparked copycat sites despite law enforcement actions.
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Suspected members of the ShinyHunters group, they reportedly held the orders of BreakForums. This platform, central in the cybercriminal world, was the privileged place to distribute or sell stolen personal data.
Since its dismantling by the American authorities, "BreachForums", a space for exchange between pirates and the most famous site in the world for the resale of stolen data, had been reconstructed around the world.... Read more [Info VA] French administrators of the stolen BreachForums website have appeared first on Current Values.
French police arrested five people for operating the BreachForums cybercrime forum, which was used to leak and sell stolen data, affecting millions of people. The main figures included threat actors such as ShinyHunters and IntelBroker, who were involved in operating new versions of the website and launching attacks against multiple French entities and international institutions.
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