- Conor Fitzpatrick, also known as Pompompurin, was forwarded to three years in prison for operational infractions and possessing child sexual abuse material
- Failure, which contained more than 14 billion records and had 330,000 members, resurfaced repeatedly despite the application efforts of the law
- The forum is now offline, with its maintainers and other cyber groups such as Lapsus $ and the scattered spider that chooses “darkening.”
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the person behind the infamous Breachforums underground pirarrassment forum, will spend time in jail after his initial sentence was discarded.
In March 2023, Fitzpatrick (aka Pompompurin) was arrested for operational infractions, and was accused of conspiracy of access devices, application for access devices and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
In January 2024, Fitzpatrick declared himself guilty of the three accounts, and was sentenced to 17 days in jail, as well as 20 years of supervised liberation.
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However, prosecutors appealed, arguing that the sentence was too indulgent given the scale of their crimes. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed, stating that “a 17 -day judgment does not meet the required sentence purposes and, therefore, was substantially unreasonable.”
As a result, Fitzpatrick was forwarded: his previous sentence overturned and replaced with three years in the federal prison.
“Conor Fitzpatrick personally benefited from the sale of large amounts of stolen information, from private personal information to commercial data,” said US prosecutor Erik S. Siebert for the East district of Virginia.
Failure arose in March 2022, from the debris of the previously dismantled Raidforums, a similar market that the police closed. According to The Hacker News, Beachforums had about 330,000 members at its peak and had more than 14 billion individual records.
Police tried to close it on numerous occasions, but the forum continued to appear. Baphomet, the administrator who took over when Fitzpatrick was arrested, was also arrested in 2023, leaving the forum to Shinyhunters, a group of cybercriminals responsible for some of the most devastating data infractions in recent history.
At the time of publication, Breachforums is offline, and his maintainers also say they wanted to “darken.” Other groups that also darkened in recent weeks included Lapsus $ and dispersed spider.
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