TechFlow News, March 5: According to a Cointelegraph report, the FBI, Europol, and law enforcement agencies from 14 countries jointly conducted an operation on March 3–4 to successfully shut down the cybercrime forum LeakBase. The forum had over 142,000 members and served as a platform for hackers to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime tools.
Law enforcement authorities have seized user accounts, posts, credit details, private information, and IP logs as evidence, and executed search warrants and arrest operations across multiple countries.
Notably, LeakBase’s predecessor, Raidforums, was shut down in 2022 after hosting leaked data containing personal information of approximately 272,000 Ledger cryptocurrency wallet users. In recent years, data breaches in the crypto industry have continued to rise, including security incidents such as the hacking of Coinbase’s internal systems.
