News report
Cracked cybercrime forum reemerges
SC Media, April 14, 2025. Cracked's reappearance on a new domain roughly ten weeks after Operation Talent seized cracked.io, restored from a pre-seizure backup and claiming 4.7 million users and 1 million threads..
- Source type
- News report
- Published
- April 14, 2025
- Research grade
- S2
- Used in entries
- 1
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- SC Media
- Published
- April 14, 2025
- Source type
- News report
- Research grade
- Source grade S2
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Not an official publication
- What it supports
- Cracked's reappearance on a new domain roughly ten weeks after Operation Talent seized cracked.io, restored from a pre-seizure backup and claiming 4.7 million users and 1 million threads.
- Dataset id
- src_scmedia_cracked_reemerges_2025
Research notes
- By SC Staff. article:published_time 2025-04-14T08:32:45-04:00.
- The user and thread counts and the 'our Server was encrypted' line are the forum operators' own claims relayed by SC Media, not verified figures.
- The brief situates the relaunch alongside BreachForums' repeated recoveries.
How this source is used
Cited 1 time across 1 record type.
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 23, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here.
Cited by
Later activity
1 citation
Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.
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Cracked (cracked.sh)Later outcome
Same service on replacement infrastructure, Cracked and Nulled forums takedown