The French police have allegedly arrested five operators of the Brechforam Cybercrime Forum, which was made to leak and sell the stolen data used by the cyber criminal, which highlighted the sensitive information of millions.
There are reports of arrest Le parisianWhich claims that the law enforcement operation was carried out by the Cybercrime Unit (BL2C) of the Paris Police Department on Monday.
According to reporters, the police conducted simultaneous raids in the areas of Huts-Day-Sain (Paris), Scene-Mitime (Normandi), and Ruonians (Foreign).
During this action, he has arrested four hackers known online by the handle “Shinhoresters,” “Holll,” “Nutt,” and “Depressed”.
For months, rumors aired that another famous danger actor, “Intelbroker,” was also arrested. Le Parisian reports that Intelbrokar was also arrested by French authorities in February 2025.
Breachforum Hacking Forums have passed through several recurrents over the years, but worked to sell access to corporate networks and other illegal cyber crime services as a community for cyber criminals.
In 2023, the original Brechforams was arrested after his operator, Connor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka Pomumpurin).
Shortly thereafter, other threats of the community launched Breachforums V2, headed by danger actors known as Shainheters, Baphomet, and later, as Intelbroker.
Actors with five danger arrested were allegedly involved in the operation of this new launch of the site.
Shinyhunters and Intelbroker were the administrators/owners of the site, and the stored posts show hollow acting as a moderator. It is not clear what was the participation of “sad” and “NOCT” in the operation of the site.
Those cyber criminals are accused of having direct participation in data violations against French institutions like Baulanger, SFR, France Travel and French Football Federation.
The attack against France Travel (East Poly Employee) was particularly notable for compromising the sensitive details of an estimated 43 million individuals.
Intelbroker Europeol, General Electric, Weee!, AMD, HPE, Nokia and CISCO increased to infamous for their involvement in violations. However, the danger actor entered the spotlight after dissolving the DC Health Link, the organization that operates the health care plans of American household members, their employees and their families.
Among the arrested those arrested are the most notorious, as Alias have been linked to several high-profile data violations and attacks, including salesfors and powerscoles, and snowflake attacks, which affect Santnder, Ticketmaster, AT & T, Advance Auto Parts, Neemon Marcus and Stilance.
The danger actors of Shinyhunters have also been involved in large numbers of violations in 2025, with the group several danger actors under the same name.
Breachforums V2 went offline in April 2025, when the site was allegedly violated by MyBB zero-day vulnerability. The stage never returned online.
Bleepingcomputer has approached the Paris Police and AnsSi to comment on the validity and accuracy of the reports, but we have not received any response yet.