BreachForums admins distance themselves from a sprawl of replicas

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Former admins of the now-defunct Breached, and Raid Forums say they are not connected to the avalanche of new leak sites, struggling to replace their vanished sites.

 Less than two weeks have passed since the feds arrested the suspected administrator of cybercrime marketplace Breached, Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, known as Pompompurin, prompting remaining site admins to shut down the website.
 
However, the competition to replace the dead website has been intense, with several new supposed online marketplaces set up to replace the old one. Some of the replicas, closely resemble the defunct BreachForums.


 Meanwhile, others have website addresses that differ from each other only by a single letter and are almost indistinguishable from each other.
The wave of new cybercrime forums pushed some in the cybercrime community to worry that at least a few candidates to take over where Pompompurin left, have been set up by the authorities to trick criminals into revealing themselves.
 
Since several of the forums closely resemble Breached and Raid Forums, both controlled by some of the same people, former BreachForums admins released a statement claiming they have nothing to do with the replicas.
 
“None of the forums that you are seeing pop up are associated with us. […] None of our current staff are involved in those communities either,” former BreachForums admin Baphomet said.
 
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) alleges that Fitzpatrick, a 20-year-old from upstate New York, ran a criminal marketplace with over 340,000 active users. He is charged with “conspiracy to commit access device fraud” and faces up to five years in prison.

Source:
CyberNews
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