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The FBI, in combination with police around the world, have taken control of the website and Telegram channel of ransomware brokerage site BreachForums.

Its former admin Conor Brian Fitzpatrick – aka "Pompourin" was sentenced to 20 years of supervised release in January after his arrest earlier that month, but the site popped up again to act as a broker for stolen data.

BreachForums took over from the previously taken down RaidForums website, which was shuttered in 2022 after another combined police operation.

"From June 2023 until May 2024, BreachForums (hosted at breachforums.st/.cx/.is/.vc and run by ShinyHunters) was operating as a clear-net marketplace for cybercriminals to buy, sell, and trade contraband, including stolen access devices, means of identification, hacking tools, breached databases, and other illegal services," the FBI's IC3 website says, and includes a for victims to add information to hunt for the perpetrators.

No doubt other forums of this kind will spring up but the takeover is a major blow to those who seek to extort folks using their own data.

It's a multi-billion dollar industry now and there's no sign of a technical fix or a loss of motivation among the criminal set.

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