BreachForums is back: now called BreachStars

The infamous hacker marketplace BreachForums has received another reboot — now called BreachStars. The new administrators promise to fix the mistakes of their predecessors and make the platform more resilient.

BreachStars launched in late September 2025. The administrators position themselves as “seasoned professionals, not teenagers in a basement” and claim to have studied hundreds of court documents about previous forum closures.

Key changes include:

• Re-registration of all participants without restoring old statuses (for security reasons).

• Plan to implement an automatic escrow system for transactions.

• Appearance of a hidden version on the Darknet, internal search and reputation system.

• Payments for found vulnerabilities.

At the time of publication, the forum had already gathered over 2,000 users, almost 500 topics and over 300 databases.

BreachForums has a long history of decline and revival. Initially, it became a replacement for RaidForums, which was closed in 2022. In March 2023, the founder of Pompompurin (Conor Fitzpatrick) was arrested, and the site was seized by the FBI. After that, the forum was restored several times by other administrators, but each time it disappeared again under pressure from the special services. In July 2025, the French police detained Shiny Hunters, another of the key operators of BreachForums, after which the site disappeared completely. The new release of BreachStars is an attempt to give the forum a “fresh start”.

Despite loud statements about a “new level of security”, the fate of BreachStars remains uncertain. The experience of past years proves that even the largest hacking platforms cannot resist law enforcement agencies for long.