Security vendors tracking dark-web activity note that the reconstituted forum displays more than 7.3 million total posts across 13,000 threads, numbers identical to the snapshot taken days before the takedown, further corroborating the administrators’ claim that “your accounts, your posts, your reputation, nothing has been lost or altered”. Although the message seeks to project normality, “As far as we’re concerned, it is business as usual,” the post reads, the timing of the comeback raises questions for investigators who believed the FBI’s March operation had permanently crippled the market for hacked databases and malware builders that BreachForums facilitated. BreachForums, the notorious cybercrime discussion board that vanished from the clearnet after a law-enforcement seizure in, quietly re-opened this week under its original administrators and with the entire historical archive of user accounts, posts, and private messages intact. The unexpected reemergence has alarmed security researchers and relieved the forum’s criminal users, many of whom had come to terms with losing their reputational standing and escrowed data when the site vanished. The relaunch was announced in a post titled “Statement Regarding BreachForums” from an administrator using the handle “NA,” who insisted that no members of the core staff had been arrested during the earlier takedown. Cyber Security News is a Dedicated News Platform For Cyber News, Cyber Attack News, Hacking News & Vulnerability Analysis. Less than four months later, the same user handles, reputation scores, and cryptocurrency wallets have reappeared, suggesting that the site’s operators maintained secure off-site backups and never surrendered encryption keys.
This Cyber News was published on cybersecuritynews.com. Publication date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:05:11 +0000