LeakBase Hacker Forum Admin Arrested in Russia by Law Enforcement Authorities

Russian law enforcement arrested the suspected administrator of LeakBase, an underground hacker forum with over 147,000 members that hosted hundreds of millions of stolen records used for credential stuffing, identity theft, financial fraud, and to support enterprise breaches; authorities seized servers, storage, access logs and cryptocurrency wallets and opened a criminal case while conducting forensic analysis to identify top sellers and breach origins.