Original BreachForums Admin Gets 3-Year Prison Sentence

Prosecutors Asked Court to Sentence Conor 'Pompompurin' Fitzpatrick to 188 Months David Perera (@daveperera) • September 16, 2025

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, founder and administrator of the first iteration of the BreachForums cybercrime forum, received a three year prison sentence during a Tuesday resentencing in a Virginia federal court.

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The sentence is far lower than the nearly 16 years prosecutors said was necessary to stop Fitzpatrick, 22, from returning to a life of digital crime and for sending a message to other would-be online crime kingpins. Fitzpatrick proposed one year worth of weekends spent in jail along with 15 years' probation and 20 years of supervised release.

Better known online as "Pompompurin," 22-year-old Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty in July 2023 to three criminal counts - two counts related ...