4chan hacked to oblivion, could it be over?

[Hitcore]

4chan is definitely controversial, and their politically incorrect image may not appeal to you, but say what you want: the site has spawned a lot of internet culture and memes for the past two decades that have become mainstream today, and with a user base of in the millions the following is a pretty big happening:

According to multiple sources the hacker have dumped the entire 4chan database.
Leaked screenshots show what appears to be internal dashboard data and moderator/janitor logs. The breach seems legit, and to make things even more remarkable, emails of janitors and moderators were leaked, some of which reportedly use .edu domains tied to American universities, which by itself is interesting.

Below some screenshots/posts on the matter, and below those a few links to news articles:






With LIVEBLOG:

Thousands of 4Chan users report issues accessing controversial website

CONTROVERSIAL website 4Chan has gone down for thousands with users unable to access the message board. More than 1,000 users of the site have logged complaints on the Downdetector website, which me…

www.the-sun.com

4chan hacked. Site is currently down. Might possibly be the end of 4chan News - Entertainment - Tech/Gadgets

News broke on the US Sun 2 hours ago. Here is a better article report aboit the situation. https://www.newsweek.com/4chan-down-hack-downdetector-reports-2059862 This Reddit post has a whole lot more info: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/Fzkp2s3Bon Someting about 4chan using...

www.resetera.com

Is 4chan down? What we know amid hack reports

Hundreds of 4chan users have reported problems.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Retro]

Nice to see them get a taste of their own medicine, finally.

 

[Hitcore]

This post captures how I feel about it.



If you go to /pol/, or /b/, then yeah those boards are toilets. But I liked going to /trv/ (travel), /out/ (outdoors), /vr/ (retro games), /mu/ (music), and /wg/ (wallpapers general). Wildly different crowds there, much more laid back. There is a clear distinction between the red boards (NSFW) and the blue boards (SFW).

Anyway, an update straight from 4chan itself. A one-liner, suggesting that they're on it, it just may take some time. Based on this, my educated guess is that they're probably going to rebuild it from scratch (since there is basically nothing left and how horribly outdated the engine was).



To be continued!

 

[Retro]

Shame to lose the good with the bad. I only knew them for their controversial side and didn't even know they had a good side like this.