Administrator of BreachForums was given a 20-year supervised release sentence for hacking the forum.

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick was given a 20-year sentence of supervised release today in the Eastern District of Virginia for running the infamous BreachForums hacking forum, which is known for selling and leaking personal information from hundreds of millions of people all over the world.

On the Breached cybercrime forum, Fitzpatrick andnbsp were charged in March 2023 with stealing and selling sensitive personal information belonging to “millions of U.S. citizens and hundreds of United States and foreign companies, organizations, and government agencies.”

Fitzpatrick, who went by the online moniker” Pompompurin,” belonged to a cybercriminal underground that was committed to hacking businesses and selling or leaking their stolen information online.

Fitzpatrick established an online forum called BreachForums where millions of people’s data were frequently leaked or sold to other threat actors in order to facilitate the sale and sharing of stolen data.

Fitzpatrick had previously entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, two counts of solicitation for the purpose of providing access, and three counts for possession of child pornography.

The U.S. government requested Fitzpatrick’s sentence of 188 months, or roughly 15.7 years, in a sentencing memorandum that was submitted by American prosecutors on January 16.

However, the courts were lenient today and sentenced Fitzpatrick to time served and 20 years of supervised release after it was first reported by VX- Underground and later confirmed by BleepingComputer.

Fitzpatrick will receive mental health care and serve the first two years of his release in home arrest as part of the sentencing requirements.

Fitzpatrick must permit the probation officer to install monitoring software on his computer and is also forbidden from using the internet during his first year of release.

The&nbsp’s sentencing decision states that the defendant must not use the internet for the first year following his supervised release.

Without the pre-approval and authorization of the court or probation officer, the defendant shall not sell or offer to sell any item on the internet for another person or entity after that year. Selling items on online auction sites is a part of this, but it is not the only one.

Fitzpatrick is required by the courts to make restitution for the losses of the victims, with the amount to be decided later.