The French Cybercrime Brigade (BL2C) has conducted numerous raids across the territory, detaining four alleged high-profile members of the BreachForums hacking forum.
A leak on a hacking forum that exposed internal AMD data appears to have been confirmed by the company, as it acknowledged that an unnamed third-party vendor involved in product assembly was breached. Questions remain about the extent of the data breach, however.
The raid of the hacking forum follows the auction of stolen data from Europol last week and an April leak of information said to have been taken from a contractor used by the Five Eyes intelligence agencies.
Account information of over 2.6 million Duolingo users was obtained via data scraping of an exposed API, and recently leaked on an underground hacking forum.
Prior to its seizure in April 2022, RaidForums was one of the biggest hacking forums catering to cybercriminals that trade in stolen data. A new competitor is looking to make a name for itself by exposing some 478,000 former RaidForums members.
The FBI arrested and charged a New York man Connor Brian Fitzpatrick with cybercrime. Connor is alleged to be the hacking forum “BreachForums” owner and operator, Pompompurin.
Taiwanese PC maker Acer confirmed a data breach after a hacker listed the stolen data on a hacking forum, including technical product specifications and infrastructure details.
Hackers listed FIFA 21 and Frostbite engine source code and developer tools for sale on an underground hacking forum following the successful Electronic Arts data breach.
