The United States authorities has really helpful that Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the creator and lead administrator of the now-defunct BreachBoards hacking boards, obtain a sentence of 15 years in jail.
BreachBoards was a infamous cybercrime discussion board that gained prominence after the FBI seized RaidForums in 2022. Fitzpatrick created it below the alias “Pompompurin” to facilitate the commerce and trade of stolen knowledge, together with private data, bank cards, account credentials, and so forth.
The man instantly admitted his involvement and function in Breach and was launched shortly after his arrest on a $300k bond till the court docket proceedings might start.
Earlier this month, Fitzpatrick was positioned in custody once more after he broke his launch phrases by utilizing a digital personal community (VPN) device to entry the web on an unmanaged laptop.
The defendant’s last sentence is scheduled for Friday, January 19, 2024, and the US authorities has already despatched its proposal for the court docket’s consideration.
According to the launched paperwork, first noticed by @vxundergroundthe federal government recommends that Fitzpatrick obtain a sentence of 188 months, roughly 15.7 years, primarily based on the character and affect of the defendant’s actions.
“The defendant’s administration of BreachBoards performed an instrumental function in bringing collectively greater than 300,000 members to solicit, distribute, and entry hundreds of breached databases containing the stolen knowledge of a whole bunch of firms, organizations, and governmental organizations of various dimension and the PII of thousands and thousands of US individuals,” reads the sentencing proposal.
In addition to being the admin of BreachBoards, the US authorities says Fitzpatrick acted as a intermediary for the sale of stolen knowledge between different customers of the location, encouraging risk actors to leak samples of stolen knowledge.
“The defendant’s intermediary service considerably facilitated and inspired the dissemination of hacked or stolen knowledge by means of BreachBoards as a result of it enabled consumers and sellers to confirm the technique of fee and contraband information being offered previous to executing the acquisition and sale,” explains the sentencing proposal.
In addition to Fitzpatrick’s on-line cybercrime actions, the FBI discovered baby pornography in 26 information on a seized SSD arduous drive.
In addition to the imprisonment, the US authorities additionally seeks a nice for his possession of kid pornography, a considerable time period of supervised launch, restitution to victims, and forfeiture of sure belongings.