Infosec in brief Conor Brian Fitzpatrick – aka "Pompourin", a former administrator of the infamous leak site BreachForums – has been sentenced to 20 years of supervised release.
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Fitzpatrick was arrested and charged in March 2023. Authorities accused him of running the site, which allegedly facilitated the sale of stolen data, hacking tools and child sexual abuse materials. He pleaded guilty but later violated the terms of his release and was jailed before sentencing.
On Friday, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled [PDF] that Fitzpatrick will spend the next 20 years of his life on supervised release. For the first two years, he will be under house arrest and tracked by a GPS device, and for the first year he will be banned from using the internet.
The sentencing guidelines meant he could have faced ten years in prison.
