BreachForums and DarkForums: takedown timeline

This report chronicles the rise, disruption and recurring relaunches of underground data-leak forums (RaidForums → BreachForums → successors like DarkForums), documents law-enforcement actions and legal outcomes (including arrests and a resentencing), quantifies the scale of exposed records and membership, and advises defenders to monitor for their data, verify claims, and remediate exposed accounts and credentials.