US EditionBreachForums Founder Caged After Soft Sentence Overturned
Fitzpatrick's initial lenient sentence was overturned due to violations of court terms, leading to a harsher three-year prison term for his role in operating BreachForums.
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BreachForums founder resentenced to three years in prison
A man who pleaded guilty in 2023 for charges related to his work as founder and operator of the notorious BreachForums website was resentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after having his initial sentence overturned in January. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, 22, operated BreachForums — once regarded as the largest English-language cybercrime marketplace — under the alias “Pompompurin.” The forum allowed users to purchase, sell, and exchange hacke…
BreachForums hacking forum admin resentenced to three years in prison
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 22-year-old behind the notorious BreachForums hacking forum, was resentenced today to three years in prison after a federal appeals court overturned his prior sentence of time served and 20 years of supervised release.
World’s Biggest Hacker Forum Admin Gets Resentenced to Serve Three More Years
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the founder and operator of BreachForums, has been resentenced to three more years in prison after a federal appeals court vacated his earlier light sentence. Authorities say Fitzpatrick created and ran one of the world’s largest English-language hacker forums, where criminals bought and sold stolen data. The Justice Department and FBI emphasized […] The post World’s Biggest Hacker Forum Admin Gets Resentenced to Serve T…
The administrator of the notorious hacker forum BreachForums has had his sentence commuted to three years in prison for violating the terms of his pretrial release. The forum, founded by 22-year-old Fitzpatrick in 2022, quickly attracted over 330,000 members who sold hacking tools and corporate information. Although initially sentenced to just 17 days in prison and 20 years of supervised release, the US Department of Justice successfully appeale…
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