Overview
- Europol coordinated synchronized actions on March 3–4 across 14 countries under Operation Leak, followed by domain takedowns and a law‑enforcement splash page.
- Authorities seized two LeakBase domains and preserved the full backend—user accounts, posts, private messages, credit details, and IP logs—for evidentiary use.
- Europol reports around 100 enforcement actions with measures against 37 of the forum’s most active users, including arrests, searches, and interviews in the U.S., Australia, Belgium, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and the U.K.
- Active since 2021 on the open web, LeakBase amassed over 142,000 members, about 32,000 posts, and more than 215,000 private messages, trafficking hacked databases and stealer logs containing hundreds of millions of credentials.
- The FBI Salt Lake City Field Office leads the U.S. case with support from San Diego and Utah partners as authorities move into a prevention phase; the forum reportedly barred sales of Russian‑related data.