The online criminal bazaar BreachForums has been resurrected merely two weeks after a U.S.-led coordinated law enforcement action dismantled and seized control of its infrastructure.
Cybersecurity researchers and dark web trackers Brett Callow, Dark Web Informer, and FalconFeeds revealed the site’s online return at breachforums[.]st – one of the dismantled sites – by a user named ShinyHunters, who has since offered for sale a 1.3 TB database containing details of allegedly 560 million Ticketmaster customers for $500,000.
This includes full names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, ticket sales and event information, and the last four digits of credit cards and their associated expiration dates.
However, in an interesting twist, visitors of the site are now being asked to sign up for an account in order to view the content.
BreachForums emerged in March 2022 in the aftermath of the shutdown of RaidForums and the arrest of its owner “Omnipotent.” It was dismantled in mid-June 2023, after which it was revived by Baphomet and ShinyHunters to launch a new site under the same name.
Both the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the FBI have yet to comment on the takedown, or the re-emergence of the forum for that matter.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/
