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BreachForums: History, Arrests and shutdowns & Notable leaks

BreachForums, sometimes referred to as Breached, was 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 discussions concerning hacking and facilitated the distribution of data obtained through data…

Language: English [EN]

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BreachForums topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Arrests and shutdowns and Notable leaks as prominent areas in the source structure around BreachForums.

Related topics: 34
Source areas: 4
Connected nodes: 38
Extracted relationships: 62
Concept neighborhoods: 14
Bridge connections: 38

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Arrests and shutdowns · 17 topics

Notable leaks · 6 topics

Overview · 6 topics

History · 5 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Advertising: Yes
Available in: English
Commercial: Yes
Country of origin: United States
Current status: Offline
Founder(s): Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, also known by his screen name "pompompurin"

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Overview

Black-hat hacking Black hat (computer security)
Crime forum
RaidForums
Data breaches Data breach
ShinyHunters
DDoS-Guard

History

Notable leaks

Database
FBI
InfraGard
Social-engineering Social engineering (security)
DC Health Link
Health insurance marketplace

Arrests and shutdowns

Peekskill, New York
Virtual private network
Clearnet Clearnet (networking)
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Department of Health and Human Services
United States Department of Justice
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
.onion
Telegram Telegram (software)
Europol
PGP Pretty Good Privacy
Landing page
Zero-day vulnerability
Honeypots Honeypot (computing)
Internet Crime Complaint Center
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Agence nationale des titres sécurisés Agence nationale des titres sécurisés?action=edit&redlink=1

Advanced semantic analysis

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How BreachForums connects Entity context

The extracted context around BreachForums shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, BreachForums → FBI, Founder, French, Hollow, In, Justice, On August, PGP, PGP-signed, ShinyHunters, Telegram, The, United States Department Another extracted example is BreachForums → All, Complaint Center, Depressed, French, Hollow, In February, In June, IntelBroker, June, Noct, ShinyHunters, The FBI's Internet Crime. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

BreachForums

Top relations

related to 2025 shutdown · 13

BreachForums → FBI, Founder, French, Hollow, In, Justice, On August, PGP, PGP-signed, ShinyHunters, Telegram, The, United States Department

related to 2025 arrests · 12

BreachForums → All, Complaint Center, Depressed, French, Hollow, In February, In June, IntelBroker, June, Noct, ShinyHunters, The FBI's Internet Crime

related to Competing successor forums (2025–2026) · 12

BreachForums → According, BF V4, Caine, Clone Wars, Following, Forum Wars, Indra, Indra's, N/A, SpyCloud, The, ZATAZ

related to Second domain seizure · 9

BreachForums → According, Baphomet, Europol's, FBI, May, On May, ShinyHunters, Telegram, The

related to 2025 suspected MyBB zero-day infiltration · 5

BreachForums → MyBB, On April, PGP-signed, The, They

Advertising · 1

BreachForums → Yes

Available in · 1

BreachForums → English

Commercial · 1

BreachForums → Yes

Country of origin · 1

BreachForums → United States

Current status · 1

BreachForums → Offline

Important terminology

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Important terminology

shinyhunters 2025 forum fitzpatrick website data also claimed following later forum's using intelbroker march 2023 administrator baphomet 2024 shutdown administrators

BreachForums relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 62 structured relationships around BreachForums. Examples in this analysis include BreachForums → Advertising → Yes and BreachForums → Available in → English. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
BreachForums	Advertising	Yes	1.00	infobox
BreachForums	Available in	English	1.00	infobox
BreachForums	Commercial	Yes	1.00	infobox
BreachForums	Country of origin	United States	1.00	infobox
BreachForums	Current status	Offline	1.00	infobox
BreachForums	Founder(s)	Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, also known by his screen name "pompompurin"	1.00	infobox
BreachForums	Launched	March 4, 2022; 4 years ago (2022-03-04)	1.00	infobox
BreachForums	Predecessor	RaidForums	1.00	infobox
BreachForums	Type of site	Internet forum	1.00	infobox
BreachForums	URL	breachforums.st /.cx/.is/.vc	1.00	infobox
BreachForums	Users	Approximately 324,000 in August 2025	1.00	infobox
BreachForums	related to 2025 arrests	In February	0.60	section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around BreachForums bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Forum, Shinyhunters and April. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

BreachForums
- Forum
- Shinyhunters
- April
- Offline
- Website
- Administrators
- Also
- Claimed
- Hacking
- Known
- Account
- Citation
breachforums
- Forum
- Shinyhunters
- April
- Offline
- Website
- Administrators
- Also
- Claimed
- Hacking
- Known
- Account
- Citation
crime forum
- Baphomet
- Shinyhunters
- Later
- Also
- Claimed
- Hacking
- Name
- Screen
- April
- Citation
- Needed
- Offline
data breaches
- Known
- Seizure
- Offline
- Administrators
- March
- Also
- Fitzpatrick
- Forum
- Hacking
- Raidforums
- Name
- Screen
united states department of health and human services
- States
- United
- Seizure
- Shutdown
- Forum's
- Raidforums
- Fbi
- Known
- Name
- Screen
- Alleged
- Offline
united states department of justice
- States
- United
- Seizure
- Shutdown
- Forum's
- Raidforums
- Fbi
- Known
- Name
- Screen
- Alleged
- Offline
united states district court for the eastern district of virginia
- States
- United
- Seizure
- Shutdown
- Forum's
- Raidforums
- Fbi
- Known
- Name
- Screen
- Alleged
- Offline
united states court of appeals for the fourth circuit
- States
- United
- Seizure
- Shutdown
- Forum's
- Raidforums
- Fbi
- Known
- Name
- Screen
- Alleged
- Offline

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For BreachForums, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects BreachForums with Arrests and shutdowns. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

BreachForums — Arrests and shutdowns · splits 21 ⟂ 18

BreachForums — Overview · splits 32 ⟂ 7

BreachForums — Notable leaks · splits 32 ⟂ 7

BreachForums — History · splits 33 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

BreachForums

Nodes39

Edges38

Triples62

Avg. degree1.95

Density0.051282

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around BreachForums to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Arrests and shutdowns & Notable leaks, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — BreachForums · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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