Hacker Civil War: ShinyHunters Leaks 340,000 Accounts from “Fake” BreachForums

A scandal is once again erupting around one of the most notorious hacker forums. In March 2026, the database of yet another iteration of BreachForums was thrust into the public domain, a hemorrhage accompanied by vociferous declarations from the malefactors themselves.

This pertains to the so-called “fifth incarnation” of the platform, which emerged following a labyrinthine succession of closures and resurrections. Consequently, the telemetry of nearly 340,000 patrons was laid bare. The repository harbored electronic mail addresses, user monikers, and cryptographically hashed passwords, fortified by the Argon2 algorithm.

Intelligence regarding this breach was enshrined within the “Have I Been Pwned” catalog on the twenty-seventh of March. According to the service’s ledgers, the catastrophic event transpired within that very month, afflicting an aggregate sum approximating 339,800 accounts.

The ShinyHunters syndicate autonomously claimed sovereignty over the archive’s promulgation. The cabal’s denizens articulated that following the FBI’s subjugation of the forum’s infrastructure in October 2025, a myriad of disparate factions endeavored to resurrect the project; alas, the overwhelming preponderance of these endeavors were mere charades. According to their narrative, an unsanctioned hemorrhage had already materialized in January 2026, subsequent to which shadowy figures operating beneath the pseudonyms “N/A” and “Indra” reconstructed the forum’s facade, falsely parading it as the authentic sanctuary.

ShinyHunters vehemently assert that all extant iterations of BreachForums sprawled across diverse domains bear absolutely no kinship to the “authentic” platform. Furthermore, the marauders issued grim ultimatums of impending publications. Should these counterfeit clones persist in their operations, the syndicate harbors the absolute intent to unseal the forum’s archival backups, an exposure encompassing intimate personal missives, IP addresses, and the totality of conversational discourse.

Concurrently, the syndicate proclaimed the existence of latent architectural frailties within every iteration of the MyBB engine, the very foundational bedrock upon which the forum was forged. Whilst granular details delineating the nature of these afflictions remain deliberately veiled, such menacing declarations eloquently portend the peril of nascent hemorrhages should the infrastructure of these clones endure.

This successive tribulation serves as a poignant testament that even the decapitation of colossal digital arenas fails to paralyze their overarching ecosystem. Nascent sanctuaries rapidly ascend to supplant the fallen, whilst amassed intelligence relentlessly circulates, destined to be weaponized in perpetuity.