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Hello,

BreachForums was seized by the FBI and international partners today. This was inevitable and I am not surprised. Neither I and others involved with this group have been arrested. All our BreachForums domains were taken from us by the US Government a few days ago. The era of forums are over. 

We have conducted a thorough incident response on the BreachForums infrastructure ever since the domains were taken:

- - BreachForums latest database backup was compromised along with every single database backup since 2023 till now.
- - All escrow databases were compromised ever since it's release.
- - The backend servers itself were seized and destroyed.

In the simplest terms, we very likely got hacked by the US Government, considering their splash page is up on the BreachForums onion, it's a clear sign how everything in our control that they wouldn't have been able to reach is gone.

For your own safety, security, and sanity keep your opsec in check. I have no doubt the FBI and other international partners involved will be cracking down on many individuals in the next coming few weeks to months.

Over the years, BreachForums has undergone significant turbulence. To my count this is the 4th time, including RaidForums seizure that the FBI has took action, consistently. We are not fighting this war anymore, this is officially the end. 

To confirm a wild conspiracy theory brought up by multiple individuals and some security researchers over time:

The following is not common knowledge among the general community and public but when RaidForums was seized and BreachForums was launched shortly after, pompompurin was just a front. We all carefully planned the launch of BreachForums since day 1, ever since then everything has went to complete shit because of unforeseen circumstances and situations. Which lead me to coming out publicly in 2023 and owning the forum along with Baphomet, again, unforeseen circumstances lead to the seizure once again in 2024. Now we're here. Ever since the beginning, nothing good has come from this. BreachForums is never coming back, if it comes back, it should immediately be considered a honeypot.

There is not much to say about this seizure but one thing to note is, the recent action the US Government has took against us, has no impact on our Salesforce campaigns. The fact that our DLS was also hosted on BreachForums clearnet domain and because we planned to re-open the forum to leak the data of companies who have not complied with us when the deadline arrived onto the re-opened BreachForums was likely the cause of todays seizure.

Time to move on, stay tuned for 11:59 PM New York time on 10/10/2025!

Media enquiries: shinycorp@tutanota.com, shinygroup@onionmail.com

- - ShinyHunters / BreachForums Administration Team
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