"According to court documents, Fitzpatrick admitted to being the owner and administrator of BreachForums, under the moniker of Pompompurin. He also agreed to forfeit over 100 domain names linked to the cybercrime marketplace. In January 2024, he was sentenced to time served and 20 years of supervised release. However, between his arrest and sentencing, he stayed in jail for only 17 days, as he was granted pretrial release on bond, and arrested again before sentencing for violating the conditions of the bond."
"Launched in March 2022 and also known as Breached, BreachForums became one of the largest cybercrime marketplaces, growing to over 330,000 members after cybercrime marketplace RaidForums was seized by law enforcement in February 2022. During its one-year existence, BreachForums became popular for selling personally identifying information (PII), usernames and passwords, and bank account information. The marketplace maintained and offered roughly 890 data sets of stolen information containing over 14 billion individual records of PII, the US Department of Justice says."
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick was arrested in March 2023 and admitted to owning and administering BreachForums under the moniker Pompompurin, agreeing to forfeit over 100 linked domain names. He was initially sentenced in January 2024 to time served and 20 years of supervised release after spending only 17 days in jail due to pretrial release, and was arrested again for violating bond conditions. The Fourth Circuit vacated that sentence in January 2025 and remanded for resentencing, which resulted in a three-year prison term for operating BreachForums and possessing child sexual abuse material. BreachForums launched in March 2022, grew to over 330,000 members, offered roughly 890 stolen data sets totaling over 14 billion PII records, and included datasets on millions of telecommunications, social networking, and healthcare users, including 87,760 InfraGard members.
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