News report
Specialist reporting on the 2025 BreachForums portal seizure
Established specialist cybersecurity publication. 2025 seizure of the BreachForums portal.
- Source type
- News report
- Published
- Not established
- Research grade
- S2
- Used in entries
- 2
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- Established specialist cybersecurity publication
- Published
- Not established
- Source type
- News report
- Research grade
- Source grade S2
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Not an official publication
- Address
- No address recorded for this source. Publisher, title, and date are given so it can be retrieved from the publisher.
- What it supports
- 2025 seizure of the BreachForums portal
- Dataset id
- src_news_breachforums_2025
Research notes
- MATERIAL GAP. No official primary source located in this pass.
How this source is used
Cited 2 times across 2 record types.
The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.
Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 20, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here.
Cited by
Takedown records
1 citation
Cited on the takedown record itself.
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BreachForums portal seizure (2025)Supporting source
Fraud and stolen data, January 2025
Later activity
1 citation
Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.
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BreachForums subsequent iterationsSupporting source
Partial operator continuity, BreachForums domain seizure