Το FBI συνέλαβε τον Κόνορ Μπράιαν Φιτζπάτρικ, γνωστό και ως "Pompompurin", ο οποίος διηύθυνε τον διαβόητο hacking ιστότοπο του DarkWeb "BreachForums" και που είχε αναλάβει την ευθύνη για το χακάρισμα των email της υπηρεσίας, το 2021.
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick was arrested at his home on Wednesday afternoon with the charge for fraud.
Πράκτορας του FBI που εμπλέκεται στην υπόθεση κατέθεσε ότι ο Φιτζπάτρικ παραδέχτηκε τη στιγμή της σύλληψής του ότι ήταν ο ιδιοκτήτης του BreachForums και αυτοπροσδιορίστηκε με το nickname "Pompompurin".
History of Pompompurin
Pompompurin created BreachForums after the FBI took over RaidForums, a similar hacking site that sold the information it illegally extracted.
The hacker is involved in a number of breaches, with many of them to target the FBI. In 2021, Pompompurin claimed responsibility for a hack that sent thousands of fake prealerts cybersecurity from the FBI email address.
It is also linked to the breach of Infragard, the antichangeof FBI intelligence aimed at raising awareness among government agencies about physical and digital threats.
In addition, Pompompurin is linked to the 2021 hack of Robinhood, which exposed the information of millions of its users, as well as the leak of Twitter users and email addresses that occurred in November 2022.
BreachForums is still up and running and in a recent post it says the site now has new ownership. The hacking forum has already been involved in recent ones attacks in cyberspace, including the breach of DC Health Lin (a market health care used by many US politicians and government personnel) and the breach of the Australian company Optus Telecom.
Fitzpatrick was released Thursday on $300.000 bail and will appear in a Virginia court on March 24. according to Bloomberg.
