- The online forum notorious 4chan is currently offline
- A hacker would have taken the offline site and disclosed sensitive data
- “Rivaux” users celebrate
The infamous anonymous 4chan imageboard would have been hacked and put offline, the website unable to load.
A pirate apparently lingered on the 4Chan’s systems “for over a year” before deciding to pull the trigger.
The threat actor has disclosed some screenshots to prove that the website was hacked, and on these screenshots, she showed the backend, the source code and the alleged ban on the site. In addition, the pirate has disclosed a list of 4CHAN moderators and concierges, mainly website operators.
Rent the fall
4CHAN is one of the most popular anonymous image paintings in the world. This is a forum where users cannot record an account and in which threads disappear after a certain time (except archived, which only occurs in certain situations). He has gained notoriety in the past when his users have gathered to make “raids” – often promoting fascism, racism and other destructive ideologies – “for Lulz” (for pleasure).
Memes like Pepe The Frog, Pedo Bear, the anonymous mask Guy Fawkes and many other trends, are from 4chan. The “raids” included live floods, multiplayer games and massive cat platforms, other forums and similar. The forum and its users also had their “rivals”, mainly Ebamsworld (which they have always tried to change the blame during the raids) and 8chan.
On social networks, users of these advice is delighted and now praise the “fall” of 4chan.
Techcrunch spoke to one of the concierges, which said that the image table had undergone hacks and DDOS attacks in the past, but stressed that it could be particularly dangerous because it seems that the pirate has total control on the site.
“I was more concerned with the information disclosed, for obvious reasons,” said the concierge. “I would bet that the fact that 4chan was actually taken care of by a pirate (s) is probably” worse “that the screenshots, at least from the point of view of the continuous operation of the site.”
They also told the publication that stolen data was probably authentic.
Whenever 4chan moved offline in the past, or each time someone threaten a legal action against this, users reacted by a now famous quote, which I will also use here: “Nothing value was lost.”
Via Techcrunch
