"Internet’s litter box" 4chan appears to have been pillaged by rival forum

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https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/4chan_breached/ – Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked

… Reports from social media and forum posts suggest 4chan was operating on an outdated version of PHP, the open-source scripting language used for web development. While The Register hasn’t verified the claims, it’s alleged 4chan was running a nearly decade-old buggy version of PHP and used a deprecated function to interact with its MySQL database. A 4chan splinter site called soyjack party, aka sharty, claimed to be behind the security breach, and posted what they alleged was a ton of internal data on their rival website, including source code and info on moderators and lower-level mods called janitors. The leak reportedly included [.]edu and [.]gov email addresses. …

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Dks01

HELLFIRE Those who live by a digital sword will die by their own sword, eventually.

Rook

I Feel bad for….ummmm….nevermind.

GeekGirl1

I feel bad for the moderators. They go to great lengths to protect their personal info for obvious reasons.

If it’s not obvious, being a moderator is like being a cop. You really, really don’t want anyone visiting you at your personal home to dispute something you did.

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https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/28/4chan_back_onlin/ – Back online after “catastrophic” attack, 4chan says it’s too broke for good IT

Clearweb cesspit 4chan is back up and running, but says the damage caused by a cyberattack earlier this month was “catastrophic.” In a statement released on Saturday, the .org’s official blog site said “a hacker using a UK IP address” was to blame for the intrusion, which led to vast amounts of important data being stolen. It went on to loosely confirm the rumors that surrounded the initial April 14 incident, which, as The Register reported, was suspected to have been the work of an attacker exploiting a near-decade-old version of PHP. 4chan’s statement did not reference PHP or any specific vulnerability, but provided more details on how the attack unfolded. … It blamed its failure to update its operating systems, code, and infrastructure on “having insufficient skilled man-hours” – a byproduct of “being starved of money for years by advertisers, payment providers, and service providers who had succumbed to external pressure campaigns.” …

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Dks01

HELLFIRE So blame others for your own failures. Classic narcissism.

Rook

Clearweb cesspit 4chan is back up and running…

An apt descriptor.
The “internet’s litter box” was on-point too.

HELLFIRE

Rook An apt descriptor.

TheRegister’s World Class British Snark™ is always a bright spot in the day 😃 😃

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