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FBI seizes domains for infamous hacking forums that created 17 million US victims

TL;DR: The Department of Justice has seized the domains of two notorious hacking forums connected to 17 million American victims. The Department of Justice has announced the FBI has seized two ...
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How the FBI and Mandiant caught a ‘serial hacker’ who tried to fake his own death

In the early hours of January 20, 2023, a doctor’s user account logged onto the Hawaii Electronic Death Registration System from out of state to certify the death of a man named Jesse Kipf. The death ...
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FBI seizes RAMP hacking forum in coordinated dark web takedown

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized the clearnet and darkweb domains of the RAMP underground platform. The RAMP platform serves as a hacking forum and caters to several groups ...
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US government seizes one of the internet's largest hacker forums

TL;DR: The DOJ seized LeakBase, a major hacker forum with over 142,000 members, hosting stolen data and cybercrime tools, including hacked databases with millions of credentials from U.S. corporations ...
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The Westchester Man Who Founded One Of The World's Largest Hacker Forums Gets Harsher Sentence

PEEKSKILL, NY — A Westchester hacker who avoided prison on federal charges, will go to prison after a new sentence was ordered by a higher court. The Hudson Valley man was resentenced this week to ...