"Dark Web Data Leak Exposes RaidForums Members"

Nearly half a million members of a notorious cybercrime forum have recently had their details publicly exposed after a key database was published on another hacking site.  Cybersecurity researchers at VX-Underground confirmed the news that over 478,000 users of RaidForums had their data leaked on the up-and-coming forum Exposed.  The database includes members’ usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords.  The researchers noted that while police likely already have this information following the site’s takedown in April 2022, it could be useful to security researchers looking to build up more information on threat actors.  The researchers noted that some users’ details appear to have been removed from the leak, although it is unclear how many or why.  Launched in 2015, RaidForums was one of the world’s largest hacking forums, enabling members to trade and publish compromised data.  Multiple high-profile database breaches ended up on the site.  After coordinated law enforcement action on both sides of the Atlantic, the RaidForums domain was seized, and its alleged administrator and two accomplices were arrested.  According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), RaidForums members offered hundreds of databases of stolen data containing more than 10 billion unique records for sale over the years, impacting countless US and global victims.

Infosecurity reports: "Dark Web Data Leak Exposes RaidForums Members"