What exactly is the identity of ShinyHunters, whether BreachForums is an FBI honeypot or not, and why BreachForums was suddenly shut down and then suddenly restored remain confusing, all are question marks left for time to answer.

The third version of BreachForums has again suffered a huge blow, with both the clearnet and dark web sites inaccessible, the administrator ShinyHunters' Telegram account deleted, and the new BreachForums channel and Jacuzzi 2.0 chat groups similarly deleted.

The BreachForums announcement said that BreachForums has reached a new high of 100,000 members, which is a sign that the forum has made more progress, and as a result, its team needs to make improvements to the community as a whole, which will focus on the quality of the data or services posted on the forums and on minimizing the friction of transactions.

"ODN" checked and learned that the operator behind breachforums had transferred the domain name to "FlokiNET", an Icelandic operator that supports a variety of payment methods, in particular virtual currencies such as DASH, Bitcoin, Litecoin and others.

When a domain is seized by the authorities, it usually always displays the same generic message - an image informing that the domain has been seized. Interestingly, the image currently displayed on this forum also shows Pompompurin's forum cartoon avatar, but in handcuffs.

The Exposed forum had gained widespread popularity for leaking the Raidforums user database and was once considered a replacement for the Breached forum, which was announced to be closed. "ODN" will continue to follow up on whether the relaunch of the Breached forum led to the closure of the Exposed forum.

On May 29, 2023, Exposed Forum administrator "Impotent" made public the RaidForums membership database, which includes the details of 478,000 users, including their usernames, email addresses, hashed passwords, and registration dates. This data is now available to other threat actors, researchers, and law enforcement.