World’s Biggest Hacker Forum Admin Gets Resentenced to Serve Three More Years

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the founder and operator of BreachForums, has been resentenced to three more years in prison after a federal appeals court vacated his earlier light sentence. According to The Justice Department, he created and ran one of the world’s largest English-language hacker forums where criminals bought and sold stolen data.

In March 2022 he launched BreachForums following the shutdown of RaidForums, and the site quickly attracted more than 330,000 members, offering access to breached databases and enabling the purchase of stolen bank account details, social security numbers, personal contact lists, and login credentials. Investigators found at least 888 data sets on the site, totaling over 14 billion individual records of personally identifying information.

Fitzpatrick, 22, of Peekskill, New York, pleaded guilty to one count each of access device conspiracy, access device solicitation, and possession of child sexual abuse material, and he forfeited over 100 domain names, more than a dozen electronic devices, and cryptocurrency proceeds as part of his plea. In January 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated his original sentence of 17 days and remanded the case for resentencing.