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The Latest Breaking News from BreachForums

Notorious online data leak market BreachForums taken down by whitehat heroes

BreachForums is no more - but for how long?

TechRadar · Mar 17

One of the largest hacker forums in the world has been seized by the US DoJ

We don't yet know how many arrests have been carried out.

PC Gamer · Mar 5

Hacking hub BreachForums hit by data breach - 324,000 accounts exposed

Names and IP addresses of BreachForums users leaked - but most cannot be used.

TechRadar · Jan 12

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Domains used by notorious hacking group ShinyHunters for Salesforce hacks disrupted in FBI takedown

The FBI tries to stop ShinyHunters hackers from leaking Salesforce data.

TechRadar · Oct 13, 2025

Infamous BreachForums founder will be heading to jail after all

A previous 17-day sentence was overturned.

TechRadar · Sep 17, 2025

Cloud streaming hoster StreamElements confirms data breach following attack

A former third-party lost sensitive data on hundreds of thousands of users and now people are getting phishing emails.

TechRadar · Mar 27, 2025

Global police operation takes down major cybercrime and hacking forums

Two forums with 10 million users were shut down, and two people were arrested.

TechRadar · Jan 31, 2025

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North Pole Company data breach exposes details on half a million users

A hacker posted an archive on the dark web, claiming it came from The North Pole Company.

TechRadar · Jan 21, 2025

HPE investigating claims that hacker breached developer environments, source code

HPE says there is no concrete evidence yet, but it is investigating.

TechRadar · Jan 21, 2025

Ford denies it was hit by data breach, says customer data is safe

The data hackers are sharing online came from elsewhere, and includes public data, Ford is saying.

TechRadar · Nov 22, 2024

Cisco takes its developer hub offline following data theft

Cisco stands by its assessment that there was no breach, despite contrary evidence.

TechRadar · Oct 21, 2024

Cisco investigates breach after data put up for sale on BreachForums

IntelBroker and friends are selling yet another archive and Cisco is taking notice.

TechRadar · Oct 15, 2024

Dell confirms it is investigating data breach after employee info leaked

A hacker says they stole employee info on more than 10,000 people and Dell is currently looking into it.

TechRadar · Sep 23, 2024

Temu denies data breach — but hacker claims to have leaked 87 million strong database

Claims of a breach are "categorically false", Temu says, despite hacker posting a database on BreachForums.

TechRadar · Sep 18, 2024

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Newslaundry · Jun 10, 2024

How inadequate security checks led to massive data breach in Telangana police app

The source code of TS-COP displaying access protocols for live streaming of CCTV footageThe network of the Telangana Police was hacked by an unknown threat actor who goes by the name of Adm1nFr1end and the details of the breach of the TS-COP app were published on the hacker forum BreachForums.…

TechRadar · Jun 3, 2024

Santander hit by massive hack — "all staff" and 30 million customers affected

ShinyHunters criminal gang offering a huge Santander database for $2 million.

Axios · May 31, 2024

An alleged data breach at Ticketmaster is a bit weirder than it seems

Ticketmaster has yet to confirm if this stolen data is legitimate, and the breach is announced is on a site that law enforcement took down earlier this month.

TechRadar · May 29, 2024

Ticketmaster breached — data of over 500 million users allegedly put up for sale online

Database claiming to be from Ticketmaster contains some pretty important information, including partial payment data.

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TechRadar · May 29, 2024

BreachForums is back — just weeks after FBI reportedly took down cybercrime website, it reappears

Even the FBI couldn't keep the infamous BreachForums offline for long.

TechRadar · May 24, 2024

Good luck keeping the past private now —criminal records of millions of Americans leaked online in major database breach

No one knows where the data came from, but researchers suspect it might be a PR stunt.

TechRadar · May 16, 2024

FBI takes control of notorious BreachForums cybercrime website

Domains have since been recovered but BreachForums admin seems to have been arrested.

TechRadar · Apr 4, 2024

The AT&T data leak highlights the importance of protecting your data

The data, which includes full names, email addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers, has been posted to the dark web

TechRadar · Jan 22, 2024

BreachForums hacking forum admin sentenced to 20 years supervised release

Fitzpatrick will spend the next two years in house arrest with a GPS tracker around his wrist.

TechRadar · Apr 5, 2023

The FBI has shut down one of the world's biggest cyber fraud platforms

The FBI, Europol, and multiple national police forces join to take down Genesis.Market.

TechRadar · Mar 22, 2023

BreachForums says it will shut down following owner's arrest

New admin says BreachForums server data was likely compromised, but pledges to return.

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