Raidforums is a famous hacker forum in the world. In the past, this forum has been repeatedly used as a distribution platform for sensitive data of businesses and users in Vietnam. In the past week, this forum has been inactive, although the reason behind is still a mystery.
Specifically, since February 25, the Raidforums forum has been inaccessible with various error messages. When accessing Raidforums, a web page that requires login appears, but only shows the wrong username/password when entering information. In the latest developments, this website is completely inaccessible.
Many sources said that a Raidforums admin member confirmed on Telegram that the Raidforums.com domain name was revoked. This administrator also offers a new alternative domain name, but as of now, this domain name is still inaccessible.
Announcement of a Raidforums forum administrator on Telegram
Regarding the login site, although not directly confirmed, but the user is recommended to change the password. It cannot be ruled out that this is a phishing site, set up after a domain name revocation to collect passwords. However, this is just a hypothesis and has not been verified.
Before this incident, Raidforums also had connection problems at the end of January. It took nearly 2 weeks, on February 12, that this forum returned to operation. However, the mods (managers) of Raidforums have no idea why the problem occurs. Meanwhile, the Raidforums admin with the nickname “Omnipotent” also has not accessed the forum since January 30. This has raised some doubts about Raidforums being swept away by government agencies.
Raidforums are used to exchange sensitive information of businesses and Vietnamese users
In Vietnam, Raidforums has repeatedly put businesses and users in shambles when sensitive data is publicly offered. Some notable cases include 17GB of leaked KYC (user authentication) data, containing identity card information, selfie photos of thousands of users; or BKAV’s internal data (including software source code, documents and internal chat) is for sale for 250,000 USD… Con Cung, The Gioi Di Dong, FPT Shop, Facebook… are also several other names affected by posts on Raidforums.