Update: New information added to the end of the story.
The latest incarnation of the notorious BreachForums hacking forum has suffered a data breach, with its user database table leaked online.
BreachForums is the name of a series of hacking forums used to trade, sell, and leak stolen data, as well as sell access to corporate networks and other illegal cybercrime services.
The site was launched after the first of these forums, RaidForums, was seized by law enforcement, with the owner, "Omnipotent", arrested.
While BreachForums has suffered data breaches and police actions in the past, it has been repeatedly relaunched under new domains, with some accusing it of now being a honeypot for law enforcement.
Yesterday, a website named after the ShinyHunters extortion gang released a 7Zip archive named breachedforum.7z.
This archive contains three files named:
shinyhunte.rs-the-story-of-james.txt
databoose.sql
breachedforum-pgp-key.txt.asc
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