No matter what, the FBI will search through each piece of evidence for a clue. Even if that was some random email not linked to him, they have subpoenas ready for google for anything linked to what he says.
Pom's gross negligence aside, can we take a moment to discuss Baphomet's top notch OpSec? - Revokes Pom's admin access based on the fact that he has been inactive longer than usual without notice - Decided to scrap the site altogether based on a single suspicious log - Zero assumptions Whatever BF alternative Baphomet ends up working out is sure as hell going to be tough to take down if he is going to be the main admin.
Wouldn't call it top notch. Maybe next time Baphomet takes an effort to not store activity logs on the server for months. That database probably deanonimized plenty of other sloppy teenage hackers.
@@Steelrat1994 I mean thats opsec in the blackhat world for you. If you trust a third-party to keep your Identity safe you're already off to a bad start.
@@wlockuz4467 I mean, sure, the users implicitly accepted that risk for the convenience. But people also make mistakes all the time. If he cared about the safety of their service, he could've spent half an hour to set up a job to purge the logs.
@@Steelrat1994 Users should assume that whatever info they give to a blackhat site is going straight to your friendly local LEO, a la a honeypot. The site can try its best, but it's the end user's responsibility to keep safe. If activity logs, unseeded password hashes, or the user db could deanonymize you, you're being careless.
Its not about genius, with perfect opsec, its straight up impossible to catch anyone on the internet. A mistake is basically a requirement to catch somebody like pom
"How did this guy, who brands himself using a hello kitty character, rise to become one of the most famous personalities in the cyber criminal underworld?" Now that's a wild sentence
@@Tophatjones358 It can easily be true. When you have to run extremely strict op-sec procedures 24/7 all by yourself, you are bound to make a mistake once in a while. You are a human afterall, and you cannot stop being a human and making human mistakes.
@@thorn9382 boomers aren’t inept enough to consummate with the technology, but that’s stating the obvious. Just goes to show you how easy it will be for our future youth to bond w AI
A lot of these hackers and scammers are tech-savvy but not street savvy. Most of these guys are not career criminals so they don't have a lot of emotional intelligence. That's how they get caught.
>made opsec mistakes >tech-savvy Lil bro did you use all 3 of your brain cells to write this comment This has nothing to do with emotional intelligence or being "streets-smart" Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video
Thanks a bunch for including your sponsored segment at the end. Its a breath of fresh air to watch a video without being slammed by a long drawn out intro, followed by a scripted sponsorship segment.
I'd be fine with multiple 5 second mentions throughout as well, just short enough where i don't feel the need to skip and needing to actively go to the video and look for the next segment. As long as content runs for like at least a couple minutes inbetween sponsor mentions i'd be fine.
Also, who the hell keeps activity logs in a nice neat SQL database for over half a year long for the FBI to grab? Those should've been purged automatically or never stored at all.
The whole thing shows just how stupid some people can be. It’s because he was a 20 year old kid loving the fame imo. He got reckless. Probably wanted to chat with someone and ended up getting himself caught. 1. Used real email…COME ON! 2. Wasn’t using auto-connect on the VPN? What?! Wasn’t using Tor? What?! Then to mess with a three letter agency…Oof. It wasn’t even like it took thousands of man hours and millions of dollars to get him. Real email, real IP. What. They probably sat on the information for a year and didn’t really care until he hacked them.
@@BallisticTip this seems to be a common theme with big criminals and the reason why so few of them last any amount of time. Their egos just outstrip any sense of paranoia or rational ability to make decisions and they end up gifting themselves to the agencies on silver platters.
@@BallisticTip Exactly. The FBI can find anyone if they really wanted to. It's just that some people have greater priority than others. In this case Pom brought himself to the top of list by messing with the FBI
To be fair, I'm running a public web forum and only after migrating to a new forum software this year there finally was an builtin option to automatically rotate and wipe those. Before that, there were logs and IP addresses attached to everything, going back to 2008.
Non-politically affiliated hackers are usually smart and bored self-taught programming teenagers to very young adults who have a lot of free time, or at least start that way, and more time talking to internet people rather than face to face. I know because I was one of them, and while I was part of the scene a bit, I never did anything outright illegal or dealing with money because I didn't want to risk jail time. I had the opportunity several times, though. Fun times, now I'm adult with a full time programming job and don't have so much free time. I'll still dick around with game hacking sometimes.
@@Seytonic I really can't be too mad at you but some people are really getting the wrong idea about this kind of stuff. While this was a win in theory, was it really a win or is everyone just fooling themselves. Something to think about.
@@evandrofilipe1526 I'm just curious - besides entertaining stories, what else has Pom actually contributed to your life? It's a rhetorical question. All he contributed to the average person's life is a good story to read about hacking. If you can think of anything else, let me know. I'm curious. From what I know scammers are the main customers of breached data. Normal, everyday working people are losing time and money due to these breached database sellers/leaks. How are they going to see Pom's arrest as anything but good? Trolling the FBI really doesn't achieve anything at all. He could have done a disclosure and possibly been paid or offered an FBI job. If you think he actually achieved something good sending those joke emails through FBI's email please let me know because I'm confused. I'm still trying to come up with a single positive thing Pom contributed to the average person besides a good story to read. Otherwise he was the reason for many peoples accounts being hacked. How do you expect people to see this?
pompompurin joined my friends matrix room dedicated for posting cat images just a few days before he got arrested we are imagining a federal agent frantically looking through the cat images and videos looking for intelligence
@@Seytonic Hey, do you think you can do a video about pico ducky or something similar, as I know you sell usb rubber duckies so you might be interested in making a video about a pico-ducky.
I was involved in hacking many years ago, long enough that I owned a bluebox and was involved in the Mattel hack where we got control of their voicemail and WATS line. Friend of mine flew too close to the sun and got caught. He was looking at 20+ years, and he was offered a deal to work for the other side, earning a six figure income securing military servers with an indefinitely suspended sentence. I'm sure Pom will be fine.
what country was this in? I've heard similar stories from people living in the UK or other developed european countries, meanwhile in the US people are very rarely ever given any second chances, even after serving their sentence. Maybe things have changed, or maybe some states are better but seems unlikely
@@Cary You me, seytonic and anyone else except pom have no idea how pom feels. I actually really hate how smug everyone is here making lots of assumptions acting like know it alls. Especially when if you think about it, not only do hackers give us an explicit motivation to protect data, you have to realise that the normal person doesn't opsec as hard as a hacker and therefore the authorities and by extension the government know a scary amount about individual people but even worse, the whole population in general. This has big implications and everyone here is talking about "haha, dumb hacker, shouldn't have done that". In fact, I'm so outraged by this attitude, I'm going to make an actual comment.
a lot of people don't realise that no matter how big you see yourself as a 20 gram of metal traveling at 300 meters per second is enough to shut you down permanently
Bro literally exposed himself. If he just made up a fake email (not his real one) he could've avoided this. Funny how the biggest black hat hacker made a basic mistake even beginners don't make!
It have had to be an email that was used to make an account for that leaked keyboard app, and it had to be one of the ones that was not included in the leak post.
@@Rust_Rust_Rust Just watch the video again. The point is he couldn't have made a new email on the spot as it would not have served the purpose he was looking for.
It's amazing how people can build such massive complex systems of illegal activity and not have any common sense when it comes to speaking to others online or using clean emails/identities online.
It's just tiresome, I don't think common sense has anything to do with it per se. I'm nowhere near as great of a hacker as PomPom is, but I know that it takes a lot of discipline and energy to constantly be aware and keep track of everything you do. Laziness and opportunism is something that affects all people. One slip up and it is game over, and it's not an easy feat to NEVER slip up. I honestly think that 99.9% of hackers slip up, however, most aren't caught because they're too far down the totem pole and thus aren't interesting or are simply lucky.
Honestly it doesnt surprise me that a lot of cyber criminals are either in their early 20s or are just teens I dont think cybercrime is really something hard to do its just that we realize how stupid it is to do it while they are too young to actually think about it
Real cybercrime is definitely hard to do. What most people think of as "cybercrime " is downloading a script that hacks shit, those are script kiddies and not even local law enforcement gives a fuck about them, real hacking takes years and usually starts with being a script kiddie
@@lydellackerman800 well by definition it is cyber crime with yeah i agree most of them are just script kids or they just use social enginearing The only ones who actually use hacking and malware to do crime are either big cybercrime organizations that we dont hear a lot because they dont let fame get over their heads or they are goverment hacker groups
its much much easier to learn thesedays with the abundant access to information online. If you were a child in the 90s it too difficult to obtain, not accesable to children or you had to be in the right circles and this is assuming you have the where with all to pull it off, Gen Z has been spoiled rotten with information here. Anyone can be a hacker really thesedays, you just need time and maybe boatloads of rage.
@@wingit7602 that's a small part, but I can google sql injection and still not break into anything, it's about being able to think how other people can't. For example, you aren't going to crack into a program by doing something everybody knows about, you will most likely need to find an exploit that hasn't been found, that can't be taught
Now in my '50s, it was fun growing up in the era where law enforcement had not caught up to cyber (as we now call it) crime. I knew guys who got away with crazy stuff.
He probably made 100 different mistakes that the FBI could use, but they choose to explain the most obvious one so there's no complicated stuff for judges to understand. >"He shared an email with his real name" , "He logged in as Pompompourin in his dad's computer".
2:55 Man, this is ridiculous. I guess this shows how you should never, ever post PII, even if you think you can socially engineer people into ignoring it. Especially if you have something to hide.
United States can hack other countries and whoever they want with no legal issues. If you work for them in their interest it’s OK, if not you’re fucked lol. Soft power is no joke
Truth is very few people are skilled enough to know cybersecurity, digital forensics, and things of the like to actually fully avoid law enforcement. Most of these people are just kids, script kiddies who stumbled upon a community that accepted them and which they made easy money, and their youth/ lack of experience gets them caught
@@Samir-rd8xp He maybe wasn't a script kiddie, but none of his hacks were particularly advanced. Like the FBI email hack, what happened is the body of the email was constructed in your web browser. So you can just modify that to be whatever you want. The other FBI hack, it was a place where owners of important infrastructure (water, electric, gas, etc) could make an account and talk about whatever they talk about. He just pretended to be somebody else, made an account, and downloaded as much data as he could. His hacks weren't that advanced, but I think he made up for this by spending copious amounts of time looking for vulnerabilities. If being inactive for 24hrs made everyone think he was arrested, he must have been online hours and hours every day looking for vulnerabilities.
@@sa1t938 I used to sit in Xbox 360 parties with people who exploited websites using XSS or SQL injection tools or doxed/swatted people and jacked gamertags and all they seemed to do is talk about that nonstop and occasionally load up a match. They were always online and often did it for fun or reputation. Many were in crews what they usually called them.
Caused tens of millions of dollars in damage, ran a forum dedicated to stealing and selling personal information, stole and sold personal information, hacked the FBI twice and sold their data, went on multi year long slander campains against innocent individuals, doxed people he didn't like, even hacking the national center for missing or exploited children. Those are just some of the more notable things. I don't see how 20 years is that unreasonable, but it will almost certainly be less.
- never use your real name anywhere, for any reason, in the internet -dont use the same device for clearnet, or deep/hidden net, or other activities -always use a vpn -be prepared to destroy/erase/abandon a device/account at a moments notice -repetition leaves traces -passwords should always be 20 plus characters -wipe your dirty drives clean once in a while -change your ip adress regularly -keep all devices disconnected from your network when not in use -keep your mouth shut
Wow i even saw Bjorka the hacker that leaked indonesia private information as a indonesian i feel very suprised that these people is doing such things to ruin people my future job is helping track this hackers and give them punishments.
Pom not only had clashes with researchers, but other hackers too, most notably the Uber/GTA6 hacker. His capture is good I guess, but I will miss the entertainment
A guy with the profile picture of some kids cartoon character and the name “pompompurin” must mean business. That must be some fucking serious guy alright.
hope you learned your lesson on not to use any emails, or using your own CC or Crypto, unless its monero, that link back to you. now I'm dumb enough that I used my ISP's IP when I signed up 🙃 Can't wait to meet the FBI at my door lmao
its hard to keep your irl and online identities separated as life goes on i think we should all have a second device for the other identities with the necessary security measurements built-in to keep it disconnected from you at all cost
When you're too smart as a cyber criminal, but lack the street smart or decent common sense to actually think it's not a good idea to say "oh yea that's not my e-mail or anything, and totally doesn't contain my real name".
Keep in mind that the newly released evidence does not confirm on deny whether the database has been breached, as his ISP's data alone could have been, and presumably would have been, subpoenaed and scanned for any direct access to anything related to Breach. Of course, everyone should and always should have treated such a forum like all data was inherently unsafe and insecure. But one cannot definitively make the claim you did that the data was breached by law enforcement with current publicly available information.
I always thought that you need to have really good opsec to do stuff like that, but it seems that all you need is to have your ego under control and not being stupid
I only clicked on this because I like Pompompurin the Sanrio character. It's very interesting, but it's also very fun to imagine you all are talking about the character.
Why would you even save the IP connection logs for your illegal site…. Just don’t save logs in an easily available database for law enforcement to seize
Funny how everyone knows it better and yes the mistake was dumb, but I’m sure sooner or later everyone would do such a mistake, either a not working killswitch or most likely laziness- the biggest opsec enemy
It's almost comical how he got caught.
It is always BAD OPSEC that gets users caught
He really tried the old "I'm asking for a friend" trick but with his full identity 🤦♂️
No matter what, the FBI will search through each piece of evidence for a clue. Even if that was some random email not linked to him, they have subpoenas ready for google for anything linked to what he says.
@@rahulramteke3338 I've yet to see an important hacker being caught by means of hacking or some other genius way, and not by their bad OPSEC.
Yeah, otherwise he could have gone away with it.
Ridiculous how he got caught. Not even a honeypot was needed.
Pom's gross negligence aside, can we take a moment to discuss Baphomet's top notch OpSec?
- Revokes Pom's admin access based on the fact that he has been inactive longer than usual without notice
- Decided to scrap the site altogether based on a single suspicious log
- Zero assumptions
Whatever BF alternative Baphomet ends up working out is sure as hell going to be tough to take down if he is going to be the main admin.
Wouldn't call it top notch. Maybe next time Baphomet takes an effort to not store activity logs on the server for months. That database probably deanonimized plenty of other sloppy teenage hackers.
@@Steelrat1994 I mean thats opsec in the blackhat world for you. If you trust a third-party to keep your Identity safe you're already off to a bad start.
@@wlockuz4467 I mean, sure, the users implicitly accepted that risk for the convenience.
But people also make mistakes all the time. If he cared about the safety of their service, he could've spent half an hour to set up a job to purge the logs.
@@Steelrat1994 Users should assume that whatever info they give to a blackhat site is going straight to your friendly local LEO, a la a honeypot. The site can try its best, but it's the end user's responsibility to keep safe. If activity logs, unseeded password hashes, or the user db could deanonymize you, you're being careless.
Thats what I was thinking Baphomet is clutch and smart asf.
As most times, it wasn't the genius of law enforcement but a severe slip on the part of the black hat.
All they gotta do is make one mistake
@@damuffinman6895 Oh BIG and obvious mistake..
Its not about genius, with perfect opsec, its straight up impossible to catch anyone on the internet. A mistake is basically a requirement to catch somebody like pom
hackers/cyber criminals always get caught because of a goofy slip up, or their own inability to keep their mouths shut. look at Ross Ulbricht
In this case it's not even a slip up, it's basically almost no security practices whatsoever.
"How did this guy, who brands himself using a hello kitty character, rise to become one of the most famous personalities in the cyber criminal underworld?"
Now that's a wild sentence
FBI: I can't believe that guy actually gave out his real mail address and used his personal IP for crime
Pom: Bleh
I just started the video, but this can’t be true… no one could be that much of a fool
@@Tophatjones358 It probably is. I doubt he even cared these guys have minds we normies will never understand.
@@Tophatjones358 thats how they usually get caught.
@@Tophatjones358 It can easily be true. When you have to run extremely strict op-sec procedures 24/7 all by yourself, you are bound to make a mistake once in a while. You are a human afterall, and you cannot stop being a human and making human mistakes.
@@anteshell I assume the first rule of hacking is to remain anonymous. Kind of a big oversight to make a mistake on, don’t you think?
Given this is from back in 2015, this is exactly the sort of mistake you'd expect a 12/13 year old to make.
crazy how many of these famous hackers are literal children, it's like something out of a movie
@@thorn9382 boomers aren’t inept enough to consummate with the technology, but that’s stating the obvious. Just goes to show you how easy it will be for our future youth to bond w AI
This was literally months ago what are you talking about 2015
@@З8З The message that exposed him is from a 2015 compromised forum.
@@connoisseurofcookies2047 raidforums got shut down 2 months before breachedforums r u slow?
A lot of these hackers and scammers are tech-savvy but not street savvy. Most of these guys are not career criminals so they don't have a lot of emotional intelligence. That's how they get caught.
>made opsec mistakes
>tech-savvy
Lil bro did you use all 3 of your brain cells to write this comment
This has nothing to do with emotional intelligence or being "streets-smart"
Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video
He can’t use his hacking skills on prison when 10 big men beat him up
This comment doesn't even make sense for this video, this reads like some generic chatGpt comment. Street savvy?
@@infernonova1 this has gotta be like the most surface level take. That's some real insigh Mr Holmes
@@infernonova1 or when he bends over...
Thanks a bunch for including your sponsored segment at the end.
Its a breath of fresh air to watch a video without being slammed by a long drawn out intro, followed by a scripted sponsorship segment.
I'd be fine with multiple 5 second mentions throughout as well, just short enough where i don't feel the need to skip and needing to actively go to the video and look for the next segment.
As long as content runs for like at least a couple minutes inbetween sponsor mentions i'd be fine.
@@ayoCC That would be much worse. Just wasting 5 seconds of your life every so often, which adds up. At least when it's at one time it can be skipped.
@@ayoCC that makes no sense
creators benefit by not putting the sponsor at the start, since it's more likely people will click off
Also, who the hell keeps activity logs in a nice neat SQL database for over half a year long for the FBI to grab? Those should've been purged automatically or never stored at all.
The whole thing shows just how stupid some people can be. It’s because he was a 20 year old kid loving the fame imo. He got reckless. Probably wanted to chat with someone and ended up getting himself caught. 1. Used real email…COME ON! 2. Wasn’t using auto-connect on the VPN? What?! Wasn’t using Tor? What?! Then to mess with a three letter agency…Oof. It wasn’t even like it took thousands of man hours and millions of dollars to get him. Real email, real IP. What. They probably sat on the information for a year and didn’t really care until he hacked them.
shit im no hacker, but thats just evidence waiting for someone to use tbh
@@BallisticTip this seems to be a common theme with big criminals and the reason why so few of them last any amount of time. Their egos just outstrip any sense of paranoia or rational ability to make decisions and they end up gifting themselves to the agencies on silver platters.
@@BallisticTip Exactly. The FBI can find anyone if they really wanted to. It's just that some people have greater priority than others. In this case Pom brought himself to the top of list by messing with the FBI
To be fair, I'm running a public web forum and only after migrating to a new forum software this year there finally was an builtin option to automatically rotate and wipe those. Before that, there were logs and IP addresses attached to everything, going back to 2008.
Such an interesting case, great watch yet again man. Love the videos!
Hard to believe he would make such a large mistake with the email address
Non-politically affiliated hackers are usually smart and bored self-taught programming teenagers to very young adults who have a lot of free time, or at least start that way, and more time talking to internet people rather than face to face. I know because I was one of them, and while I was part of the scene a bit, I never did anything outright illegal or dealing with money because I didn't want to risk jail time. I had the opportunity several times, though. Fun times, now I'm adult with a full time programming job and don't have so much free time. I'll still dick around with game hacking sometimes.
Very
He was running the website for 24 hours getting barely any healthy sleep or vitamin D3 from the sun, which can make you a little bit dumber.
if he's 20 now he was pretty young when it happened tbf
@ً Almost all hacker get caught this way. Most hackers are really good with computers only, but suck at life and have no common sense.
Well I picked the wrong time to go on holiday, a lot has happened the past couple weeks...
Love your videos!
haha indeed, well hope you had a great holiday ! :D
Hi
@@initialsjd5867 Thanks :) I did! Spent a couple weeks in Mongolia
@@negotiateashx Thanks my dude :))
love how in depth you go on every case. keep it up man
Absolute microbrain moment on the purin part, lmao
and yet this sometimes doesn't get caught for a long time
@@thatonemoviebob3902 Yeah, fair enough. It takes time. Not like he's the most important target in the world.
@@Chuck8541 He became one when he started fucking with the FBI
he was like 12 to be fair
@@thatonemoviebob3902 fr even people with garbage opsec can be undetected
Bro was basically hacking people's emails whilst keeping his own in a notepad document on desktop 😂
once they have your own physical computer ultimately what does it matter.
@@varsityathlete9927 True.
Wait you don't keep it on notepad?
Notepad + VeraCrypt
@@JonahMV what's wrong w keeping all ur credentials on notepad??? i usually just have root on my main directory in a file named "flag1.txt"
You can’t send someone with a cute pfp and name to jail
straight to the gas chamber it is then
Well, looks like you're going to jail!
I think you should fire your legal advisor. That is not an appropriate security measure 😂
I think nonviolent criminals are put separate so maybe he'll be somewhat okay.
You can if it's sanrio
I've waiting for your video on this topic for past 4 days, finally! Thanks seytonic
Hope you enjoyed it!
@@Seytonic I really can't be too mad at you but some people are really getting the wrong idea about this kind of stuff. While this was a win in theory, was it really a win or is everyone just fooling themselves. Something to think about.
@@evandrofilipe1526 I'm just curious - besides entertaining stories, what else has Pom actually contributed to your life? It's a rhetorical question. All he contributed to the average person's life is a good story to read about hacking. If you can think of anything else, let me know. I'm curious.
From what I know scammers are the main customers of breached data. Normal, everyday working people are losing time and money due to these breached database sellers/leaks. How are they going to see Pom's arrest as anything but good?
Trolling the FBI really doesn't achieve anything at all. He could have done a disclosure and possibly been paid or offered an FBI job. If you think he actually achieved something good sending those joke emails through FBI's email please let me know because I'm confused.
I'm still trying to come up with a single positive thing Pom contributed to the average person besides a good story to read. Otherwise he was the reason for many peoples accounts being hacked. How do you expect people to see this?
man, props to baphomet for being so suspicious. if he starts a new site like breachforums, he'll probably be harder to take down
if pom did anything right it was choosing baphomet to be his emergency switch
The Booty Warrior is still gonna be enjoying his tight 20 yr old booty so "smart" is kinda subjective... 🤣
Hope he gets arrested
pompompurin joined my friends matrix room dedicated for posting cat images just a few days before he got arrested
we are imagining a federal agent frantically looking through the cat images and videos looking for intelligence
"There's gotta be something in he.. nawww!"
And 3 hours past, just like that.
thats amazing
IMAOO
Can I join 💀
@@Heezbungus no he went full schizo hes not my friend anymore i found his info online and posted it in all the rooms he was in it was very fun
I can't believe pompompurin got caught 😫
I had come to think his reign would never end
op ppack
@@Seytonic the blog on vinny though, good old days
@@Seytonic Hey, do you think you can do a video about pico ducky or something similar, as I know you sell usb rubber duckies so you might be interested in making a video about a pico-ducky.
Who woulda thought he was just as sloppy as the previous owner
I was involved in hacking many years ago, long enough that I owned a bluebox and was involved in the Mattel hack where we got control of their voicemail and WATS line. Friend of mine flew too close to the sun and got caught. He was looking at 20+ years, and he was offered a deal to work for the other side, earning a six figure income securing military servers with an indefinitely suspended sentence. I'm sure Pom will be fine.
what country was this in? I've heard similar stories from people living in the UK or other developed european countries, meanwhile in the US people are very rarely ever given any second chances, even after serving their sentence. Maybe things have changed, or maybe some states are better but seems unlikely
@@kiiturii Canada.
@@NoJusticeNoPeace that makes sense
Yeah, most talented rebels these days are well utilized by the government, time to see Pom's NSA arc
@@zelven6109 ain't no way nsa is hiring criminals lol
This also shows that while these people may feel invincible 1 tiny mistake and they are gone
Not a tiny mistake, was multiple massive mistakes 😂
@@Cary You me, seytonic and anyone else except pom have no idea how pom feels. I actually really hate how smug everyone is here making lots of assumptions acting like know it alls. Especially when if you think about it, not only do hackers give us an explicit motivation to protect data, you have to realise that the normal person doesn't opsec as hard as a hacker and therefore the authorities and by extension the government know a scary amount about individual people but even worse, the whole population in general. This has big implications and everyone here is talking about "haha, dumb hacker, shouldn't have done that". In fact, I'm so outraged by this attitude, I'm going to make an actual comment.
a lot of people don't realise that no matter how big you see yourself as a 20 gram of metal traveling at 300 meters per second is enough to shut you down permanently
it's not a tiny mistake and you can absolutely be invincible
That wasn’t a tiny mistake fam.
That thumbnail is so adorable
It's the only thumbnail I've made which has actually given me feels
Wow! Great video. I love hearing about these kinds of stories and you tell them very well. Great pacing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
As someone who has never heard of him before but likes the sanrio character this is 10x more funnier
Guy really tried to pull an "Asking for a friend" with his real name.
First Raid Forums gets Raided.
Then Breach Forums gets Breached.
Caught by thinking he was untouchable 😂 that is the downfall of almost every criminal.
life is so stress free when you dont run an online cybercrime empire
Bro literally exposed himself. If he just made up a fake email (not his real one) he could've avoided this. Funny how the biggest black hat hacker made a basic mistake even beginners don't make!
It have had to be an email that was used to make an account for that leaked keyboard app, and it had to be one of the ones that was not included in the leak post.
@@mrkiky what
@@Rust_Rust_Rust Just watch the video again. The point is he couldn't have made a new email on the spot as it would not have served the purpose he was looking for.
he wasnt the biggest black hat hacker lol, just the criminal with the biggest blackhat forum
the beginners do it a lot
It's amazing how people can build such massive complex systems of illegal activity and not have any common sense when it comes to speaking to others online or using clean emails/identities online.
It's just tiresome, I don't think common sense has anything to do with it per se. I'm nowhere near as great of a hacker as PomPom is, but I know that it takes a lot of discipline and energy to constantly be aware and keep track of everything you do. Laziness and opportunism is something that affects all people. One slip up and it is game over, and it's not an easy feat to NEVER slip up. I honestly think that 99.9% of hackers slip up, however, most aren't caught because they're too far down the totem pole and thus aren't interesting or are simply lucky.
Always look forward to your videos 🔥
Imagine being taken down by a guy named John Longmire
Honestly it doesnt surprise me that a lot of cyber criminals are either in their early 20s or are just teens
I dont think cybercrime is really something hard to do its just that we realize how stupid it is to do it while they are too young to actually think about it
Real cybercrime is definitely hard to do. What most people think of as "cybercrime " is downloading a script that hacks shit, those are script kiddies and not even local law enforcement gives a fuck about them, real hacking takes years and usually starts with being a script kiddie
@@lydellackerman800 well by definition it is cyber crime with yeah i agree most of them are just script kids or they just use social enginearing
The only ones who actually use hacking and malware to do crime are either big cybercrime organizations that we dont hear a lot because they dont let fame get over their heads or they are goverment hacker groups
its much much easier to learn thesedays with the abundant access to information online. If you were a child in the 90s it too difficult to obtain, not accesable to children or you had to be in the right circles and this is assuming you have the where with all to pull it off, Gen Z has been spoiled rotten with information here.
Anyone can be a hacker really thesedays, you just need time and maybe boatloads of rage.
@@wingit7602 that's a small part, but I can google sql injection and still not break into anything, it's about being able to think how other people can't. For example, you aren't going to crack into a program by doing something everybody knows about, you will most likely need to find an exploit that hasn't been found, that can't be taught
Most adults would rather make bank just working as white hats
welcome back seytonic
Now in my '50s, it was fun growing up in the era where law enforcement had not caught up to cyber (as we now call it) crime. I knew guys who got away with crazy stuff.
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waited till the end for the ad... god bless u lad
That´s how all criminals get caught eventually. By stumbling over their own ego.
as a rule of thumbs, the best hackers get caught by the simplest mistakes
Its hella scary to know these dumb mistakes are the only reason people we be caught in the cybersecurity world with the tech we have
Glad to see your vids again! Welcome back!
Shocked that all these hackers are kids and also shocked that they can be so foolish with their own security
When he sent his real email and said it “wasn’t his real email”. I could just hear him saying “wink, wink” out loud.
Miss you Pom, nice chats 🤎🤞
Wait w h a t
lmao
Me going into this with no context: man this season of hello kitty and friends super cute adventures is fucking wild
I wonder if he didn't send his real email over dm and remembered to use a VPN that one time, how long would he be able to keep it up?
@@newwindserver real, if you are going to be braindead and flex on Twitter, at LEAST make new account for each tweet on a new ip
He probably made 100 different mistakes that the FBI could use, but they choose to explain the most obvious one so there's no complicated stuff for judges to understand.
>"He shared an email with his real name" , "He logged in as Pompompourin in his dad's computer".
2:55 Man, this is ridiculous. I guess this shows how you should never, ever post PII, even if you think you can socially engineer people into ignoring it. Especially if you have something to hide.
Pll?
@@reapthewhirlwind6915 Personally Identifiable Information
A tale as old as time. Reminds me of the way DPR got caught, if not precisely the same.
Indeed, it always seems to be a conflation of identities. Could easily be avoided by changing identity often and not mentioning other identities
Bailed for $300,000 He can't be a big deal for just $300K.
Think ur shadow banned brother. First video in long time that has been in my feed and I’m subscribed.
Nice, man leaked his real name. Deserved to get caught
to be fair he was ~13 at the time
@@sa1t938 jeepers
Excellent video, thanks for sharing
Pwned himself. Smh.
FBI does it: YAY!
normal person does it: Fbi: "you cant do that."
United States can hack other countries and whoever they want with no legal issues. If you work for them in their interest it’s OK, if not you’re fucked lol. Soft power is no joke
Well between regular criminals and federal criminals, you know who's gonna win. Either way, it's still good for regular people.
I see it as the other way around.
Hackers hacking into sites and databases: yay!
FBI does it to them: NO!
Truth is very few people are skilled enough to know cybersecurity, digital forensics, and things of the like to actually fully avoid law enforcement. Most of these people are just kids, script kiddies who stumbled upon a community that accepted them and which they made easy money, and their youth/ lack of experience gets them caught
hacking an fbi website definitely puts you above a script kiddie. 💀
@@Samir-rd8xp He maybe wasn't a script kiddie, but none of his hacks were particularly advanced. Like the FBI email hack, what happened is the body of the email was constructed in your web browser. So you can just modify that to be whatever you want. The other FBI hack, it was a place where owners of important infrastructure (water, electric, gas, etc) could make an account and talk about whatever they talk about. He just pretended to be somebody else, made an account, and downloaded as much data as he could.
His hacks weren't that advanced, but I think he made up for this by spending copious amounts of time looking for vulnerabilities. If being inactive for 24hrs made everyone think he was arrested, he must have been online hours and hours every day looking for vulnerabilities.
@@sa1t938 I used to sit in Xbox 360 parties with people who exploited websites using XSS or SQL injection tools or doxed/swatted people and jacked gamertags and all they seemed to do is talk about that nonstop and occasionally load up a match. They were always online and often did it for fun or reputation. Many were in crews what they usually called them.
Damn, this is sad news. Sadder than when Badtz Maru was caught trafficking mascots across state lines.
They’re trying to give him 20 YEARS for this ??!! Does anyone else think that’s kind of bs?
He made a marketplace of stolen innocents' data, lol no.
Caused tens of millions of dollars in damage, ran a forum dedicated to stealing and selling personal information, stole and sold personal information, hacked the FBI twice and sold their data, went on multi year long slander campains against innocent individuals, doxed people he didn't like, even hacking the national center for missing or exploited children. Those are just some of the more notable things. I don't see how 20 years is that unreasonable, but it will almost certainly be less.
20 years isn't enough. I want to watch the liveleak of him being gang raped by black men in the showers. :)
lol it probably should be life but cybercrime is treated weirdly
- never use your real name anywhere, for any reason, in the internet
-dont use the same device for clearnet, or deep/hidden net, or other activities
-always use a vpn
-be prepared to destroy/erase/abandon a device/account at a moments notice
-repetition leaves traces
-passwords should always be 20 plus characters
-wipe your dirty drives clean once in a while
-change your ip adress regularly
-keep all devices disconnected from your network when not in use
-keep your mouth shut
Wow i even saw Bjorka the hacker that leaked indonesia private information as a indonesian i feel very suprised that these people is doing such things to ruin people my future job is helping track this hackers and give them punishments.
shocked too lmao
been waiting for this vid
You'd think a hacker forum would implement better, more anonymous forms of authentication.
Were waiting for a vid from u on this finally lol
Got to love a good trolling rampage from a hacker 😅
This man really got caught in the exact same way as the silk road guy, that's EMBARRASSING
atp im convinced that's just the fbi's way of saying they contacted the NSA
@@koba2160 I've always thought that too. It's almost impossible to run such a large scale operation and be so stupid.
Pom not only had clashes with researchers, but other hackers too, most notably the Uber/GTA6 hacker. His capture is good I guess, but I will miss the entertainment
dude stole people's data for a living and you "guess" his capture was good?
@@GraveUypo I must have guessed correctly
@@Kaz-qz2oq Your day will come too, coward.
Imagine storing IP address logs for your super illegal hacking website, then logging in without a VPN lmfao
Perfect video for sponsorship by vpn conpanies
I wish I thought of that 🤣
its kinda funny looking back at 1:07 now, considering what pom signed a plea deal for
A guy with the profile picture of some kids cartoon character and the name “pompompurin” must mean business. That must be some fucking serious guy alright.
Man made the most obvious move possible and got caught for it
Wonder what the next major forum cybercriminals will use will be called and who will own it.
Great video with one exception. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick is an awesome name.
How can they arrest him? He is so cute. #FreePompom
thank you sir for the info.
goes to show how some of the most "genius hackers" can make some of the most stupid mistakes
It's human nature to eventually fuck up.
"Heya - Our last two admins were arrested by the FBI. Anyone want to become our new admin?"
This is going to be funny :p
this guy actually gave his real name out, jesus
Assistant US Attorneys are undersung heroes of the universe.
But not at my house!
@@dennistate5953 unsung*
@@johnnydoe3603 Asst US attys are heroes o d universe! Used to chat at nearst urinal during 1st meth crisis at hrt of insurgency!
I recc'd 1 gross o bottlerockts 2 bic lightrs 2 all reg.voters tht shit went nowhre.
Lol I was registered at that site with my real email lmaooo
hope you learned your lesson on not to use any emails, or using your own CC or Crypto, unless its monero, that link back to you. now I'm dumb enough that I used my ISP's IP when I signed up 🙃
Can't wait to meet the FBI at my door lmao
@@ChrisTheCringe the problem is, that the site didnt allow throwaway emails, I used Tor for registration tho
@@UndercoverDog if u posted leaks then ur fucked up
loved the video great contect u sir have gained a sub
its hard to keep your irl and online identities separated as life goes on
i think we should all have a second device for the other identities with the necessary security measurements built-in to keep it disconnected from you at all cost
Gotta still have the discipline to use the separate devices solely for their intended purposes. Many people couldn’t even do _that._
Im such a paranoid dumfu, i have like 7 different adresses just to be safe
These stories are wild. Pom got way too cocky.
When you're too smart as a cyber criminal, but lack the street smart or decent common sense to actually think it's not a good idea to say "oh yea that's not my e-mail or anything, and totally doesn't contain my real name".
in his words "i wont get caught. im more secure then raidforums had ever been."
Keep in mind that the newly released evidence does not confirm on deny whether the database has been breached, as his ISP's data alone could have been, and presumably would have been, subpoenaed and scanned for any direct access to anything related to Breach. Of course, everyone should and always should have treated such a forum like all data was inherently unsafe and insecure. But one cannot definitively make the claim you did that the data was breached by law enforcement with current publicly available information.
being as young & talented as he is no doubt they offered him a plea/job working for the Gov.
Can we just shorten this video into one sentence?
This dude shared his email and got caught.
even a hacker can make the same mistake that a hacker victim would
Really embarrassing way to get caught
Didn't even realize this was 47 minutes ago.
I always thought that you need to have really good opsec to do stuff like that, but it seems that all you need is to have your ego under control and not being stupid
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I only clicked on this because I like Pompompurin the Sanrio character. It's very interesting, but it's also very fun to imagine you all are talking about the character.
Why would you even save the IP connection logs for your illegal site…. Just don’t save logs in an easily available database for law enforcement to seize
bro... breached vc was like my home, damn..
Why on EARTH would they keep server logs?!?!?
100% clicked this video because of the thumbnail.
Funny how everyone knows it better and yes the mistake was dumb, but I’m sure sooner or later everyone would do such a mistake, either a not working killswitch or most likely laziness- the biggest opsec enemy
Oh my god, the lengths thats people go to be invisible, just to screw up this badly...
i often wonder if the fbi are actually smart or they just find stupid people