The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has recently joined a global law enforcement operation that dismantled LeakBase, an online forum used by cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data.

LeakBase, a forum for global hackers with over a hundred thousand members, has been seized by the United States Department of Justice (DoJ). "The forum had an enormous and continuously updated archive ...

The Department of Justice describes LeakBase as a clearinghouse for hacked databases. Alongside the "hundreds of millions" of account credentials, it offers credit and debit card ...

The Department of Justice has announced that the LeakBase database, one of the world's largest online forums for cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime ...

Federal authorities and international police have officially dismantled LeakBase, a massive online marketplace used by hackers to trade stolen credentials and private data. The Department of Justice ...

As of December 2025, LeakBase counted more than 142,000 registered users with approximately 32,000 posts and over 215,000 private messages.

The FBI has seized the LeakBase cybercrime forum, a major online forum used by cybercriminals buy and sell hacking tools and stolen data.

We don't yet know how many arrests have been carried out.

The action coordinated by Europol seized two of the group's domains and captured the forum's data, as well as making arrests.

LeakBase was an English-language site operating on the surface web which facilitated an illegal trade in stolen data, including stealer logs - archives of stolen credentials harvested through ...

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