BreachForums, sometimes referred to as Breached, is an English-language black hat–hacking crime forum. The website acted as an alternative and successor to RaidForums following its shutdown and seizure in 2022. Like its predecessor, BreachForums allowed for the discussion of various hacking topics and distributed data breaches, pornography, hacking tools, and various other services.
BreachForums, sometimes referred to as Breached, is an English-language black hat–hacking crime forum. The website acted as an alternative and successor to RaidForums following its shutdown and seizure in 2022. Like its predecessor, BreachForums allowed for the discussion of various hacking topics and distributed data breaches, pornography, hacking tools, and various other services.
On March 21, 2023, BreachForums was shut down following the arrest of the forum's owner, Conor Brian Fitzpatrick. The forum was later reopened under the ownership of the hacking group ShinyHunters and previous BreachForums administrator "Baphomet". Fitzpatrick was later sentenced to 20 years supervised release. The site was again shut down and the domain seized on May 15, 2024, though the owner ShinyHunters was able to retrieve the domain via its EPP code just hours later.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).