BreachForums Mastermind Pompompurin Arrested in New York

Earlier this week, U.S. law enforcement officials arrested a New York man as part of their efforts to crack down on the infamous hacking forum BreachForums, which was run by an individual who used the alias “Pompompurin.”

According to Bloomberg Law, a federal investigator spent hours inside as well as outside a Peekskill home earlier this week following reports from News 12 Westchester that federal investigators “had spent hours inside and outside a home in Peekskill.”

Several bags of evidence were removed by investigators from the house at one point, according to a local news service based in New York. 

The suspect has been identified as Conor Brian Fitzpatrick as per an affidavit filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He also admitted to owning the BreachForums website according to the affidavit. 

A special agent of the FBI, John Longmire, stated that the defendant’s statements to him on March 15, 2023, showed that: 

a) he was Conor Brian Fitzpatrick; 

b) he referred to himself as ‘pompompurin,’ and 

c) he owned and administered a website called ‘BreachForums.’ He was the owner and administrator of that websit

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