LeakBase Fraud and stolen data
- Lead
- FBI
- Result
- Site infrastructure and database seized.
- Accountability
- No individual outcomes recorded
- Return status
- Not established in the public record
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Takedown Index
The Internet Takedown Index documents law enforcement seizures, sinkholes, takeovers, and shutdowns of criminal internet infrastructure. Every entry traces to a cited source.
| Takedown | Date | Category | Lead organization | Jurisdiction | Status Derived from the recorded end date. A date in the past reads Completed, no date reads Ongoing. The dataset carries no separate status column. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LeakBase seizure ID: td_2026_leakbase | Mar 4, 2026 | Fraud and stolen data | FBI | Not established | Completed |
| Red Card 2.0 ID: td_2026_red_card_2 | Feb 18, 2026 | Fraud and stolen data | INTERPOL | Not established | Completed |
| Serengeti 2.0 ID: td_2025_serengeti_2 | Aug 22, 2025 | Fraud and stolen data | INTERPOL and AFRIPOL | Not established | Completed |
| HeartSender takedown ID: td_2025_heartsender | Jan 30, 2025 | Fraud and stolen data | FBI | Not established | Completed |
| BreachForums portal seizure (2025) ID: td_2025_breachforums | Jan 1, 2025 | Fraud and stolen data | Not established | International | Ongoing |
| BreachForums domain seizure ID: td_2024_breachforums | May 15, 2024 | Fraud and stolen data | FBI | International | Completed |
| Operation Cookie Monster ID: td_2023_genesis | Apr 4, 2023 | Fraud and stolen data | FBI and Dutch National Police | International | Completed |
| BreachForums shutdown following administrator arrest ID: td_2023_breachforums | Mar 21, 2023 | Fraud and stolen data | FBI | 🇺🇸 United States | Completed |
| iSpoof takedown ID: td_2022_ispoof | Nov 23, 2022 | Fraud and stolen data | Met Police | Not established | Completed |
| Operation Tourniquet ID: td_2022_raidforums | Apr 12, 2022 | Fraud and stolen data | FBI | International | Completed |
| WeLeakInfo seizure ID: td_2020_weleakinfo | Jan 15, 2020 | Fraud and stolen data | FBI | Not established | Completed |
Showing 1 to 11 of 11 takedowns
11 results
March 2026
February 2026
Cross-border online fraud infrastructure Fraud and stolen data
- Lead
- INTERPOL
- Result
- Fraud-related infrastructure disrupted across participating countries.
- Accountability
- No individual outcomes recorded
- Return status
- Not established in the public record
August 2025
Fraud infrastructure across 18 African countries Fraud and stolen data
- Lead
- INTERPOL and AFRIPOL
- Result
- More than 11,000 malicious infrastructures disrupted.
- Accountability
- No individual outcomes recorded
- Return status
- Not established in the public record
January 2025
HeartSender ("Saim Raza") Fraud and stolen data
- Lead
- FBI
- Result
- 39 domains and associated servers seized.
- Accountability
- No individual outcomes recorded
- Return status
- Not established in the public record
BreachForums (further reconstituted) Fraud and stolen data
- Lead
- Not established
- Result
- Portal infrastructure seized and replaced with a law-enforcement notice.
- Accountability
- No individual outcomes recorded
- Return status
- Not established in the public record
May 2024
BreachForums (reconstituted) Fraud and stolen data
- Lead
- FBI
- Result
- Clearnet domain seized and redirected to a seizure notice; associated Telegram infrastructure disrupted. Operators briefly regained the domain via registrar transfer credentials before losing it again.
- Accountability
- No individual outcomes recorded
- Return status
- Returned with some of the same operators
April 2023
Genesis Market Fraud and stolen data
- Lead
- FBI and Dutch National Police
- Result
- Eleven domains seized under a US warrant; US-based servers seized; marketplace clearnet access replaced with seizure notice.
- Accountability
- 119 apprehended
- Return status
- Not established in the public record
March 2023
BreachForums Fraud and stolen data
- Lead
- FBI
- Result
- Forum taken offline by a remaining staff member citing law-enforcement access to infrastructure; administrator's devices and accounts seized.
- Accountability
- 1 charged, 1 apprehended, and 1 convicted
- Return status
- Returned with some of the same operators
November 2022
iSpoof Fraud and stolen data
- Lead
- Met Police
- Result
- Platform infrastructure seized; service taken offline.
- Accountability
- 142 apprehended
- Return status
- Not established in the public record
April 2022
RaidForums Fraud and stolen data
- Lead
- FBI
- Result
- Domains raidforums.com, rf.ws, and raid.lol seized and redirected to a seizure notice; forum infrastructure taken offline.
- Accountability
- 1 charged and 1 apprehended
- Return status
- Followed by a successor service
January 2020
WeLeakInfo Fraud and stolen data
- Lead
- FBI
- Result
- Domain seized and replaced with a law-enforcement notice.
- Accountability
- 2 apprehended
- Return status
- Returned on replacement infrastructure
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