**[FBI and Europol Joint Operation Shuts Down Major Cybercrime Forum LeakBase]** According to Deep Tide TechFlow on March 5, as reported by Cointelegraph, the FBI, Europol, and law enforcement agencies from 14 countries conducted a joint operation on March 3-4, successfully shutting down the cybercrime forum LeakBase. The forum, which had over 142,000 members, served as a platform for hackers to trade stolen data and cybercrime tools. Law enforcement has seized user accounts, posts, credit details, private information, and IP logs as evidence, and has executed search warrants and arrests in multiple countries. Notably, LeakBase's predecessor, Raidforums, was shut down in 2022 and had hosted leaked data containing approximately 272,000 personal records of users from the cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger. In recent years, data breaches in the crypto industry have been on the rise, including security incidents such as the hacking of Coinbase's internal systems.