Europol Operation Seizes LeakBase Data Breach Site

Europol-led Operation Leak dismantled LeakBase, a prominent English-language forum for trading stolen data and stealer logs: law enforcement seized domains and the customer database and carried out arrests and searches across multiple countries. The report highlights the large scale of infostealer-driven credential theft (citing 1.8 billion credentials stolen in H1 2025) and situates this takedown among recent disruptions of similar leak forums and services that facilitate account compromise and MFA bypass.