A joint operation by the FBI, Europol, and international authorities removed LeakBase, disrupting a major cybercrime hub with extensive stolen data and user activity evidence.
From March 3–4, the FBI, Europol, and law enforcement agencies across eight countries seized LeakBase, a cybercrime forum with over 142,000 members and 215,000 posts. Authorities confiscated user accounts, forum content, stolen credit card data, private messages, and IP logs, targeting the infrastructure of a platform that followed Raidforums, which was closed in 2022 after leaking Ledger user data.