In a significant legal outcome for the cybersecurity landscape, Conor Fitzpatrick, the founder of the notorious BreachForums underground hacking site, has been resentenced to three years in federal prison after appeals overturned his previous lenient sentence.
Fitzpatrick, who operated under the alias Pompompurin, was originally arrested in March 2023 for running the forum and faced multiple charges: access device conspiracy, access device solicitation, and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). He pleaded guilty to all counts in January 2024 and was initially handed 17 days in jail and 20 years of supervised release, a punishment prosecutors sharply criticized as dramatically insufficient given the gravity of his crimes.
Appeals and resentencing
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed with prosecutors, declaring the original sentence “substantively unreasonable” for failing to serve proper sentencing purposes. This led to Fitzpatrick’s resentencing and a harsher three-year prison term.
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