Major data leak forum LeakBase seized by FBI, Europol, and shut down

• Europol dismantles LeakBase underground data forum
• Platform hosted stolen data trading with global reach
• Authorities seized domain and targeted active users

Several people have allegedly been arrested during a wide-ranging police operation which sought to dismantle a popular underground data leak forum.

Europol announced a major international operation which took down LeakBase, a forum that, as the agency explains, “established itself as a central hub in the cybercrime ecosystem”.

It was set up in 2021, and within four years had more than 142,000 registered users, publishing some 32,000, posts and sending more than 215,000 private messages.