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It operated as a trading post for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/breachforums-an-online-bazaar-for-stolen-data-seized-by-fbi-lnuna4o1d og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lnuna4o1D.png og:image:alt: BreachForums, an online bazaar for stolen data, seized by FBI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # BreachForums, an online bazaar for stolen data, seized by FBI **[Ars Technica](https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary BreachForums, an online bazaar for stolen data, has been seized by the FBI along with law enforcement partners worldwide. It operated as a trading post for criminals to buy and sell compromised data. The site advertised the sale of Dell customer data, and some of Europol's data was exposed in a breach and put up for sale on BreachForums. The FBI has taken down the site and created a subdomain for reporting tips. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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