The FBI has arrested a man accused of running the hacker website that recently made public the personal information of tens of thousands of congressional employees, court records show.
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Before the breach was public, a user on BreachForums offered to sell what they claimed were databases of that information. Another user eventually posted at least one version of the data for anyone to access. The charges do not clearly connect Fitzpatrick to the leak of congressional data. But the complaint against him states the FBI has long monitored him as he committed alleged crimes. The agency had identified him as the alleged operator of BreachForums at least as early as the spring of 2022, the court documents show.
Fitzpatrick was initially arrested on March 15. The complaint against him was unsealed Thursday. News of court documents conveying his arrest was first reported byFitzpatrick told the FBI that he made about $1,000 per day operating BreachForums, the complaint said. His lawyer declined to comment.
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