US charges 20-yr-old head of hacker site BreachForums


BreachForums has been one of the leading dark web hacker sites, a virtual marketplace for people to buy, sell and trade hacked or stolen data. – EPA pic, March 25, 2023.

THE US Justice Department said yesterday it had charged the founder of BreachForums, a major underground website for computer hackers that had published large amounts of data stolen from Twitter.

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, 20, of Peekskill, New York, was charged with hacking conspiracy for running BreachForums, which the Justice Department said claimed to have more than 340,000 members.


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