Breachforums Boss "Pompompurin" to Pay $700k in Healthcare Breach
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Brian Krebs reports on a significant legal outcome involving Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 22-year-old ex-administrator of the cybercrime forum Breachforums. He is required to forfeit nearly $700,000 to resolve a civil lawsuit stemming from the posting of customer data of Nonstop Health, an insurance provider. This follows the sale of stolen records on January 18, 2023, capturing personal details of many individuals. Fitzpatrick also faces resentencing next month due to previous guilty pleas for access device fraud and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in 2023.
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, a.k.a. 'Pompompurin,' is slated for resentencing next month after pleading guilty to access device fraud and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
On January 18, 2023, denizens of Breachforums posted for sale tens of thousands of records - including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, and phone numbers - stolen from Nonstop Health, an insurance provider based in Concord, Calif.
Class-action attorneys sued Nonstop Health, which added Fitzpatrick as a third-party defendant to the civil litigation in November 2023, several months after he was arrested by the FBI and criminally charged with access device fraud and CSAM possession.
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