Infamous BreachForums Is Back Online With All Accounts and Posts Restored

BreachForums, the notorious cybercrime discussion board that vanished from the clearnet after a law-enforcement seizure in, quietly re-opened this week under its original administrators and with the entire historical archive of user accounts, posts, and private messages intact.

The unexpected reemergence has alarmed security researchers and relieved the forum’s criminal users, many of whom had come to terms with losing their reputational standing and escrowed data when the site vanished.

The relaunch was announced in a post titled “Statement Regarding BreachForums” from an administrator using the handle “NA,” who insisted that no members of the core staff had been arrested during the earlier takedown.

According to the statement, the forum’s domain was voluntarily suspended by its registrar in April after an “identified zero-day vulnerability” in MyBB, the underlying forum software, was exploited against several communities.

The administrators claim the bug has been patched and that the domain was restored once they “addressed specious misconceptions” pushed by rival sites and anxious users.

Although the message seeks to project normality, “As far as we’re concerned, it is business as usual,” the post reads, the timing of the comeback raises questions for investigators who believed the FBI’s March operation had permanently crippled the market for hacked databases and malware builders that BreachForums facilitated.

Less than four months later, the same user handles, reputation scores, and cryptocurrency wallets have reappeared, suggesting that the site’s operators maintained secure off-site backups and never surrendered encryption keys.

Security vendors tracking dark-web activity note that the reconstituted forum displays more than 7.3 million total posts across 13,000 threads, numbers identical to the snapshot taken days before the takedown, further corroborating the administrators’ claim that “your accounts, your posts, your reputation, nothing has been lost or altered”.

To reassure its 340,000 registered members, BreachForums has introduced what it calls a “revamped moderation system” and promises “regular updates” about behind-the-scenes legal challenges.

The post also hints at “changes in the coming weeks” designed to improve transparency, a pledge skeptics dismiss as mere public-relations theater given the platform’s illicit purview.

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