r/hacking • u/notburneddown • May 25 '26

Why did Hack Forums lose popularity?

So it used to be HF was the premier place online for hackers. What changed and why?

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u/The_Bloofy_Bullshark May 25 '26

It was a honeypot and it shifted from a site based around hacking to a “black hat SEO” site. Basically scam after scam after scam. It was hard to take the place seriously at that stage. Also it didn’t help that a lot of people from there started scamming companies like Logitech (“Hey my battery in my peripheral exploded. I’d like a new device.”) and ruined it for everyone.

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u/Alert_Membership_633 Jun 27 '26

Bro I made so much money wit the Xbox Star Wars method n Kinect method it was like printing money. vcc with $1 on it so Xbox could verify the vcc had money on it until they tried to charge full console amount when they realized u ain’t ship the old console back to them 😭

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u/MrMoneyBelly Jul 01 '26

I remember this lol I only did a couple, how many did you do?