ShinyHunters marks BreachForums departure with user database leak

Infamous cybercrime marketplace BreachForums had its latest database impacting over 300,000 users exposed by the ShinyHunters threat operation as it exited the hacking forum, which has become a "waste of time" following the FBI's takedown in October, HackRead reports.

Included in the data trove leaked by ShinyHunters were BreachForums users' usernames, user IDs, email addresses, password salt, hashed passwords, last active times, registration dates, login keys, login attempts, lockout data, IP addresses, and signature content, as well as their most recent visit and post timestamps, according to HackRead researchers.

The leak comes as ShinyHunters declared all the existing forms of BreachForums to be fake, while warning of additional data exposure should the remaining forums continue activity. Exploits for several MyBB forum software versions have also been touted by ShinyHunters. While the current operators of BreachForums remain a mystery, it is hypothesized that the hacking forum may be run by opportunistic cybercriminals or law enforcement agencies via honeypots.