4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.
Submitted 1 day ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://old.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/1jzkjlg/4chan_hacked_hacker_reopens_qa_and_leaks_all/
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Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
dontbelasagne@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Which one of you is going to hack reddit then?
raod_guitar@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Not the type of hacktivism we need but the one we deserve.
Gigasser@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The hackers who took 4chan down come from an imageboard known as soyjak.party or “the sharty”. They are unironically, in terms of politics, more far right, and in terms of culture, far worse than 4chan from what I’ve heard and seen from the website.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yeah - the real freaks left because moot dated like Brianna Wu or something stupid and weird like that. 8chan was the place for a bit.
4chan is owned by an anime figma company at the moment - i think Nendroid?
vga@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
I posted an amusing comment on the orange site about this and got a death threat in 2 minutes.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 20 hours ago
dentoid@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
Now thats a meme i havent seen in 20 years
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 18 hours ago
It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out.
match@pawb.social 13 hours ago
damn it’s even in the original 140p
Psythik@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
120x160, actually, but effectively close enough.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
someone hacked into the sewer and stole all the turds
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Start linking up 4chan IDs to real rich people like Musk or republican officials and watch trump start calling for the death penalty for the hacker.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It’s that incel elon musk starting all those facebook porn threads on /b/.
I think you guys have a weird idea of what 4chan is.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/…/3/
Allegedly Elon’s account.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 23 hours ago
What’s the point? 4chan seems like such a low value target.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
A bunch of chuds got angry that they were banned because they went brigading against LGBTQ+ folk.
This was the end result
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
Ah yes, there’s no honor amongst thieves.
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
By my understanding, 4chan left themselves vulnerable which, given the circles they foster, means they going to be compromised. No fear of reprisal or consequence for it either. Not like when attacking a majot corporation or government.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
i’m fairly certain there are more than likely a LOT of politicians on there with very questionable posting records who would probably be on a sex offender registry if it got out.
CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If they’re Republican it won’t matter.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
For the LULZ obviously.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 11 hours ago
For revenge
witnessbolt@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
The Elon thing is possible, and there’s a screenshot in the Reddit thread that’s kinda convincing, but I’m still not bought in.
Tinfoil hat brain is wondering if there’s something in there someone’s supposed to find but 😂 🤷🏻
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
qa was my favourite 4chan board probably ever. it was a random board like /b/, but strictly SFW. so, they were the creatives of the site. the soyjak memes you see everywhere started there. they got into fights with other boards but it came to a boiling point when they raised 4chans LGBT board, and as a result qa was closed. they moved to another website. that website, or rather one of its users, then spent about a year navigating the very outdated freebsd from a decade ago running on 4chans servers until he was able to access the PHP admin panel, re-open /qa/, and then nuke all files on the server except the homepage. which itself now seems to return an SQL error.
BossPaint@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is this the end of 4 Chan?
nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
If so, it’s a fitting way for them to die.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
4chan died a long time ago.
IllNess@infosec.pub 22 hours ago
When do you consider it died? 2015 when Poole sold it?
demonsword@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
yet the rotting carcass is still around stinking
Naevermix@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
No, the people who come there are retarded. They will still be retarded in a week or a month from now.
militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Who is this 4chan guy?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
That Reddit thread is a very strange experience for someone not of their culture
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 22 hours ago
Lemmy and 4chan do have one thing in common
Hating reddit.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Also a shady image to the point some people who have only heard of it think it‘s some deep web voodoo. They have that in common somehow.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 19 hours ago
Of course, they hate Reddit because they can’t use hate speech there
datavoid@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
That is all 4chan lingo. As a general rule of thumb, if it sounds like something Elon would say, it’s from 4chan.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Just remember that the vast majority of those users are in their mid-late 30s or even early 40s. Zoomers and even younger millennials never gave a shit about 4chan.
HATEFISH@midwest.social 22 hours ago
Maybe they didn’t care to the same degree but unfortunately incel culture was fostered in several areas, and a lot of them are younger than mid 30s.
Gloria@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
I think my only contact with 4chan was to get JAV content and also my first contact with torrenting.
Brutticus@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
its like… getting a whiff of something I haven’t felt in a long time.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
more like very sad
Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 hours ago
The hacker known as 4chan hacked himself? 😮
cyphear@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
Who is this anonymous and why does he keep talking to himself?
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Come over to Marblecake and I’ll explain.
Naevermix@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Turns out the hacker known as 4chan barely knows how his own code.
Darkard@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Pools closed
gargolito@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Is q-anon Elon Musk? What? I’m just asking questions.
Alteon@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
You should check out the HBO documentary on Qanon. It’s fantastic. Essentially, no. However, I don’t doubt for a second that Elon didn’t try to co-opt it at some point.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
What happened to that shit? I hate how something like that can emerge, take hold, push people into conspiracies and the right, literally destroy families, then go away and nobody cares
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
furthermore, it’s reinterpreted as a false flag or something that never really happened - there is never accountability
ContraPoints did an excellent video in conspiracy theories recently: www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
He would certainly take credit for it.
twice_hatch@midwest.social 20 hours ago
That would be interesting. I wonder if anyone’s done stylometry on those posts
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
10000 line file with no comments is honestly relatable
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
Apparently Elon Musk is mentioned quite frequently in these leaks, but take this with a sea of salt as there is no way to independently verify: archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/…/3/
reddit.com/…/elon_musks_alleged_unverified_4chan_… summarizes these posts
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This amuses me. Fuck that refuse scow
briever@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Maybe they could do the world a favour and delete it - along with the backups.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They were hacked by removed www.soyjak.st/soy/thread/10615723.html#10615802
fossilesque@mander.xyz 23 hours ago
Ah, the mysterious hacker known as 4chan.
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 23 hours ago
They need to hack Reddit.
swab148@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
And nothing of value was lost
Naevermix@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
There just has to be a copy of the database somewhere out there…
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 22 hours ago
Kinda inevitable after moot sold it.
scytale@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
Ok now I’m curious about the alien photo they’re talking about in the comments.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
I was wiondering what was up Last night
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
lol
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
I looked at some of the leaked source code and my god the code smells are so rotten its like they had a dead horse in the back for a while and its developed a stank like an Eric Andre skit.
It increasingly looks like nobody would maintain this bundle of wax besides under-experienced juniors who threw themselves at it, and apparently after moot sold it, it was never touched. It runs on an extremely old version of FreeBSD and PHP.
The fact this happened now as opposed to any time in the past decade is, I have no words.
Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
I mean, the source code looks a lot cleaner than WordPress, which is an incredibly sad statement.
Kill WordPress now.
Scrollone@feddit.it 13 hours ago
Also, the owner of Wordpress is allegedly a piece of s…
elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I wanna bet attackers probably thought it would be maintained by one or several of the most no-life, chronically-online users of the web… or that they would be waiting for an attack to get revenge in their typical unhinged way… and it turned out no one was maintaining or watching it at all XD
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
security theater is a quite effective deterrent at times.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Not even 4chaners thought it was worth protecting
gamer@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
Where? I’d be interested in looking through it too
Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
litter.catbox.moe/a8z45n.7z
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
check some of the other chans and you will find a catbox.moe link to it.
jqubed@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Didn’t they get hacked pretty regularly in the past?