An Arrested Administrator Shut Down the Notorious Hacking Forum

 

An FBI officer has arrested a former administrator and owner of an infamous hacker forum that exposed data on companies such as HDB Financial Services, Rail Yatri, Acer, WhatsApp, Truecaller India, Hyundai India, Skoda India, etc. 
According to the FBI, a man was arrested last week who is suspected of being “Pumpompurin”, the administrator of the infamous and popular BreachForums website. As soon as the cybercrime website’s new administrator was informed of the arrest and the arrest of its administrators, he announced plans to close the forum down permanently. 
According to the FBI, a New York man has been arrested on suspicion of being Pompompurin, the owner of the BreachForums hacking forum. Documents filed in court indicate that he is charged with conspiracy to solicit an individual to sell an unauthorized access device. 
A defendant, Connor Brian Fitzpatrick, was allegedly arrested on the charge of fraud and admitted to being Connor Brian Fitzpatrick during his arrest. It was also revealed that the person who owned the Breach Forums cybercrime forum was Pompourin, who is the owner of the forum. 
The suspect, Conon Brian Fitzpatrick, who is known to the public as “Pompompurin” or “Pom” has earned a high-profile status online for several years now. He has been a target of authorities fo

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