An American court accused a man accused of being a prominent administrator of the stolen data marketplace Brechforams, accused of four others arrested in France along with four others of running the site with him.
The British National Kai West, 25, was arrested in France in February, and American officials are trying to extradite him to the US to face the allegations that they were The American District Court was included in the southern district of New York. These include computer infiltration, wire fraud crime and unauthorized access to protected computers.
Earlier in the week, the French Cybercrime Brigade considered four people shiny, hollow, NOCT, and depressed, which, according to the French media reports, were also included in the Brechforams.
The five are believed to have been taken to the site after this June 2023 Its founder arrested Connor Bryan Fitzpatrick, aka Pompumpurin. Warrant issued for West’s arrest in February It was claimed that he and his co-speculators had caused the victims of at least $ 25 million data deficit victims.
The arrest is a major setback for the latest recurrence of Brechforams, which is associated with high-profile data violations and identity theft operations.
Field CTO Stephen Kovski in email safety provider Slashnext said, “These arrests represent a significant victory for international law enforcement and demonstrate that cyber criminal forces cannot hide forever behind oblivion.”
Prosecutors alleged that West Stolls and government agencies, telecom providers, AMD, HPE and Nokia sold data from institutions spread from technical giants and healthcare providers.
Since the arrest of Pompumpurin, it is believed to be active on Brechforams, Intelbrokar claimed responsibility for a series of high profile hacks between January 2023 and December 2024, including Europeol, DC Health Links, Ciscos and General Electric, mainly trading stroll health records, internal corporate documents and user data.
On Breachforums, Intelbroker was briefly a racist cyber crime group member of cybernigars and became a prominent member before taking Breachforums 2.0. Recently identified himself as a Serbian living in Russia InterviewIntelbroker is Dismissed Allegations of relationships as “derogatory” with the Iranian state.
West was allegedly arrested by French officials in February 2025, a few days after Intelbrokar. Posted his resignation The administrator and owner as Brechforams cited ‘lack of time’ as the reason for doing so. He remains in custody there while American officials seek his extradition.
If convicted in the US, he can face a prison of up to 25 years on several allegations filed against him.
Four alleged co-scientists pulled out in France
Following an investigation by the Cybercrime Brigade of the Paris Police Province, four people were arrested by the French police, believed that it is believed that the Paris region, Normandy and the first reunion of this week, in a coordinated raid on the French island of reunion, the indifferent operators in a coordinated raid on the French island of this week are shiny, hollow, NOCT, and one according to this week, Report by French newspaper Le ParisianAll four are allegedly French and in their twenty -seventh condition, the newspaper said.
Four are believed to have helped manage and moderately manage the revived breechforams after 2023 Tekdown. While the shinhores and the hollow placed the administrator and moderator roles respectively, the involvement of NOCT and depressed is less defined.
The Paris Police province did not respond to the request of the comment.
Brechforams, successor of closed Radforams, are operated as Go-to-Marketplaces for long stolen data-Boulenger, SFR, France Travel and French football federation tied for violations for violating French institutions such as French. Despite the arrest of several Techdown and major appreciation, the stage repeatedly revived under the new leadership, which continues to fuel cyber crime on boundaries.
And this cannot be an end to this, a zero trust developer, the Developer of the Microcegimentation Platform, the Chief Employee of Colortocons, warned the Government of Agnidipta.
“It is unknown whether there are remains of his organization that can revive themselves to be more clever and more egoistic, mainly because the re -evaluation of the forum after the last takedown in 2023 and 2024 has displayed its flexibility,” the government said.
Whether it is breechforam, or any other site, Slashnext’s Kovski said, “Organizations need to assume that their data will eventually be on the surface on these platforms and focus on real -time security that will also detect and block the attacks while using a valid but compromised credentials or information.”
