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Nulled was an online cracking forum.
In 2016, Nulled suffered a
On January 29, 2025, the FBI, in collaboration with international law enforcement agencies, seized the domain of Nulled.to as part of "Operation Talent." This operation targeted several hacking forums known for facilitating cybercriminal activities, including the distribution of stolen credentials and pirated software. The seized websites now display a notice stating that they have been taken down by international law enforcement partners.
data breach
A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information".
Attackers have a variety of motives, from financial gain to political activism, political repression, and espionage. There ...
, which helped law enforcement to obtain information about possible 'suspects', who were registered on Nulled.
Data breach
On 16 May 2016, Nulled was hacked and its database leaked. The leaked data contained 9.65GB of users' personal information. The leak included a completeMySQL
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database
In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and a ...
file which contained the website's entire data. This data breach included 4,053 user accounts, their PayPal
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email addresses, along with cracked passwords, 800,593 user personal messages, 5,582 purchase records and 12,600 invoices. The data breach also exposed email addresses hosted on government domains. The identity of the person(s) that took down Nulled's database is not known, but there was speculation that state-sponsored hackers were involved. Another article reported that a Romanian group claimed responsibility for the data breach.
Operation Talent
On January 29, 2025, the FBI, in collaboration with international law enforcement agencies, seized the domain of Nulled.to as part of "Operation Talent." This operation targeted several hacking forums known for facilitating cybercriminal activities, including the distribution of stolen credentials and pirated software. The seized websites now display a notice stating that they have been taken down by international law enforcement partners.
See also
* BlackHatWorld *BreachForums
BreachForums, sometimes referred to as Breached, was an English-language black hat–hacking crime forum. The website acted as an alternative and successor to RaidForums following its shutdown and seizure in 2022. Like its predecessor, BreachF ...
* Dark0de
* Hack Forums
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* Hydra Market
Hydra (Russian: Гидра) was a Russian language dark web marketplace, founded in 2015, that facilitated trafficking of illegal drugs, financial services including cryptocurrency tumbling for money laundering
Money laundering is the proc ...
* OGUsers
* RaidForums
* ShinyHunters
ShinyHunters is a black-hat criminal hacker group that is believed to have formed in 2020 and is said to have been involved in numerous data breaches. The stolen information is often sold on the dark web.
Name and alias
The name of the group is ...
References
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