Infamous BreachForums founder will be heading to jail after all

• Conor Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, was resentenced to three years in prison for operating BreachForums and possessing child sexual abuse material
• BreachForums, which held over 14 billion records and had 330,000 members, repeatedly resurfaced despite law enforcement efforts
• The forum is now offline, with its maintainers and other cybercriminal groups like Lapsus$ and Scattered Spider choosing to “go dark.”

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the person behind the infamous BreachForums underground hacking forum, will be spending time in jail after his initial sentence was scrapped.

In March 2023, Fitzpatrick (alias Pompompurin) was arrested for operating BreachForums, and was accused of access device conspiracy, access device solicitation, and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

In January 2024, Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty on all three accounts, and was sentenced to 17 days in jail, as well as 20 years of supervised release.