Details of nearly half a million members of a notorious cybercrime forum have been exposed after a major database was exposed on another hacking site.
Cyber Security Researcher at VX-Underground Confirmed News has surfaced that the data of over 478,000 users of RaidForums has been leaked on an up-and-coming forum.
“The Exposed administration staff refused to tell us what caused the RaidForums database leak,” they tweeted.
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a screenshot Information shared by Emsisoft threat analyst Brett Callow indicates that the leak was posted by an Exposition administrator known as “Impotent.”
It also revealed that members’ usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords were stolen.
Police may already have this information after the site was taken down in April 2022, but it could be useful to security researchers trying to amass more information on threat actors.
Details of some users appear to have been removed from the leak, but it’s not clear how many or why.
Founded in 2015, RaidForums is one of the world’s largest hacking forums, allowing members to exchange and publish compromised data. Multiple high-profile database breaches have leaked to the site, including his 40 million user records from his mobile app Wishbone, and another treasure trove of COVID-19 testing data.
Coordinated law enforcement action on both sides of the Atlantic resulted in the seizure of the RaidForums domain and the arrest of the alleged administrator and two accomplices.
According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), RaidForums members have sold hundreds of databases of stolen data containing over 10 billion unique records over the years, affecting countless victims in the United States and around the world. gave.
In its early days, the site was also used to coordinate “raid” attacks aimed at harassing individuals online, as well as “swatting”, in which SWAT teams made prank calls to victims’ homes. was
