Hacking hub BreachForums hit by data breach - 324,000 accounts exposed

• BreachForums user database (323,988 records) leaked, exposing usernames, registration dates, and IP addresses
• Around 70,000 public IPs could help identify real users; most entries were useless loopback addresses
• Admin confirmed leak stemmed from August 2025 restoration; ShinyHunters denied involvement in hosting site

Someone has leaked the entire list of usernames, IP addresses, and other data, from BreachForums, the infamous underground hacking community - but exactly who, and why, remains to be seen.

A website named after the ShinyHunters ransomware operator recently emerged online, being used to host a 7Zip archive titled breachedforum.7z.

This archive contained a few files, including a database table with 323,988 member records, which contained member display names, the dates of registration, IP addresses, and other internal information.