The Era of Forums Are Over

Join us for our monthly meetup! For eleven years, the RaidForums-to-BreachForums lineage sat near the center of the modern stolen-data economy. Between older carding markets and today’s ransomware leak sites, these forums helped define how stolen data gets advertised, validated, priced, resold, and turned into reputation.

This talk walks through that history: from Omnipotent building a Twitch-raiding hub, to RaidForums becoming the default (English) breach marketplace, to BreachForums inheriting the role after repeated takedowns, compromises, arrests, and relaunches. We’ll look at how the forum model shaped the breach culture defenders still deal with today: sample drops, vouches, ego-backed leak posts, Telegram migration, and the rise of actors like ShinyHunters as both operators and criminal brands.