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FBI, France seize BreachForums infrastructure

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FBI and French investigators seized BreachForums domains and backend infrastructure, disrupting a cybercrime forum used by ShinyHunters and related actors to publish stolen data and support Salesforce extortion. The action appears to have taken down breachforums[.]hn and displayed law-enforcement branding from the FBI, Justice Department, BL2C, and JUNALCO, while the related .onion site was reportedly still online. Threat actors said the seizure would not stop their Salesforce campaigns, and one statement claimed the forum’s backups and escrow databases had also been compromised.

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  1. 10.10.2025 11:24 4 articles · 7mo ago

    Law enforcement seizes BreachForums infrastructure

    Legal Policy Action Update

    The FBI and French authorities take control of BreachForums domains and backend servers, with the latest domain update changing to FBI seizure nameservers and the forum infrastructure brought under law-enforcement control before the ShinyHunters group could complete a planned Salesforce data leak.

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  2. 10.10.2025 11:24 1 articles · 7mo ago

    ShinyHunters confirms takeover and keeps Salesforce leak campaign active

    Campaign Scope Update

    ShinyHunters confirm the BreachForums takeover on Telegram, say no one in the core admin team has been arrested, and state that they will not launch another BreachForums. They also say the Salesforce extortion campaign is still active, the dark web leak site remains online, and the group claims more than one billion customer records were stolen across companies including FedEx, Disney/Hulu, Home Depot, Marriott, Google, Cisco, Toyota, Gap, McDonald's, Walgreens, Instacart, Cartier, Adidas, Sake Fifth Avenue, Air France & KLM, Transunion, HBO MAX, UPS, Chanel, and IKEA.

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