A database containing the small print of just about half-a-million RaidForums customers has leaked on-line, a 12 months after the U.S. Division of Justice seized the infamous cybercrime discussion board.

The leaked database was posted on Uncovered, described by safety researchers as an up-and-coming discussion board “desirous to fill the void” left by the current BreachForums shutdown. An Uncovered admin, often called “Impotent,” posted the alleged RaidForums person knowledge, which incorporates the small print of 478,000 customers, together with their usernames, e-mail addresses, hashed passwords and registration dates.

“All the customers that had been on raidforums could have been contaminated,” the admin’s put up says. RaidForums had round 550,000 customers on the time of its shutdown final 12 months.

The admin added that some customers’ particulars have been faraway from the leak, although it’s unclear what number of or the reasoning behind this.

The uncovered knowledge is already probably within the fingers of regulation enforcement following RaidForums’ seizure by U.S. authorities, however could assist safety researchers investigating the discussion board’s historic exercise.

RaidForums, which launched in 2015, grew to become one of many world’s largest hacking boards. It was utilized by cybercriminals to primarily purchase and promote stolen databases. That included over one million passwords for cryptocurrency pockets service Gatehub, and thousands and thousands of stolen T-Cell buyer accounts. The Lapsus$ hacking group additionally reportedly used the hacking discussion board.

The U.S. Division of Justice introduced that it had seized RaidForums’ web site and infrastructure in April 2022 as a part of a world regulation enforcement operation. RaidForums’ administrator, often called “All-powerful,” and two of his accomplices had been additionally arrested. Earlier than the discussion board’s seizure, lots of of databases of stolen knowledge containing greater than 10 billion distinctive information for people had been supplied on the market, prosecutors stated.

U.S. regulation enforcement companies additionally just lately introduced that they’d arrested a person alleged to be “Pompompurin,” the administrator of the notorious BreachForums, which arrived following RaidForums’ demise and served the identical goal and viewers.

Days after the arrest, the cybercrime web site’s new administrator introduced that they had been shutting down the discussion board for good.