FBI and Europol joint operation shuts down major cybercrime forum LeakBase

DeepFlowTech · 2026-03-05T04:29:32+00:00

FBI and law enforcement agencies from 14 countries, including Europol, jointly shut down the cybercrime forum LeakBase on March 3-4, seizing user data and making arrests. This operation marks a crackdown on platforms involved in the buying and selling of stolen data, with LeakBase having had 142,000 members.

DeepFlowTech

2026-03-05 04:29:32

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Deep Tide TechFlow News, March 5th, according to Cointelegraph, the FBI, Europol, and law enforcement agencies from 14 countries jointly conducted operations on March 3-4, successfully shutting down the online crime forum LeakBase. The forum had over 142,000 members and was used as a platform for buying and selling stolen data and cybercrime tools.

Law enforcement has seized user accounts, posts, credit details, private information, and IP logs as evidence, and executed search warrants and arrests in multiple countries.

It is noteworthy that LeakBase’s predecessor, Raidforums, was shut down in 2022 and hosted leaked data containing approximately 272,000 personal information records of Ledger cryptocurrency wallet users. In recent years, data breaches in the crypto industry have continued to rise, including security incidents such as hackers infiltrating Coinbase’s internal systems.

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