News report
FBI seizes BreachForums servers as threatened Salesforce data release deadline approaches
CSO Online, October 10, 2025. The 9 October 2025 seizure of BreachForums' clearnet and dark web domains and back-end infrastructure (database archives, payment data back to 2023) by the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI together with France's BL2C cybercrime unit and the Paris Prosecutor's Office; the third BreachForums domain seizure after June 2023 and May 2024..
- Source type
- News report
- Published
- October 10, 2025
- Research grade
- S2
- Used in entries
- 1
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- CSO Online
- Published
- October 10, 2025
- Source type
- News report
- Research grade
- Source grade S2
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Not an official publication
- What it supports
- The 9 October 2025 seizure of BreachForums' clearnet and dark web domains and back-end infrastructure (database archives, payment data back to 2023) by the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI together with France's BL2C cybercrime unit and the Paris Prosecutor's Office; the third BreachForums domain seizure after June 2023 and May 2024.
- Dataset id
- src_csoonline_breachforums_seizure_2025
Research notes
- Byline: John E. Dunn.
- Article notes the group's separate dark web leak site remained live after the seizure.
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BreachForums portal seizure (2025)Supporting source
Fraud and stolen data, October 2025