he notorious imageboard 4chan is down following what appears to be a major hack of its backend. The hackers claim to have exposed code for the site, the emails of moderators, and a list of mod communications. This happened, it seems, as part of a five year long, inter-image board beef between users of 4chan and Soyjak, another image board that splintered off of 4chan. It’s still unclear what the fallout of the hack will be, but the notorious image board remains down and a huge amount of data appears to have been leaked. Users struggled to load 4chan on the evening of April 14, 2025, according to posts on other imageboards and forums. A few hours before that, the banned board /qa/ reappeared on the site and someone using the hiroyuki account, named after 4chan’s owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, posted “FUCKING LMAO” and “U GOT HACKED XD. The hiroyuki account was flagged in bold red as an admin, suggesting the person posting the messages had control over a real admin account. /qa/ was a “questions and answer” imageboard on 4chan. Pitched as a place to discuss concerns that affected the whole of 4chan, /qa/ was in practice a board where various factions fought. Soyjak is a popular meme you’ve probably seen before. It’s a balding man with glasses and shaggy beard, his mouth agape in docile joy. He is now the name of a rival imageboard. At about the same time 4chan struggled to load, someone on the soyjak.st posted a thread that claimed to explain what happened. “Tonight has been a very special night for many of us at the soyjak party,” the thread said. “Today, April 14, 2025, a hacker who has been in 4cuck’s system for over a year, executed the true operation soyclipse, reopening /qa/, exposing personal information of various 4cuck staff, and leaking code from the site.”
via 404media: 4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War
siehe auch: 4chan down, major hack suspected. Users have been unable to access 4chan since early Tuesday, with complaints flooding outage monitoring sites. Security researchers claim the outage may be linked to a “comprehensive hack.” The outage has been reported since the early hours of Tuesday, with thousands of users reporting the site is inaccessible on Downdetector.com, a website outage monitoring site. Some users theorized that a data breach could be responsible for the unexpected outage. We have reached out to 4chan for comment and will update the article once we receive a reply. Cybernews researchers looked into the hack claims and discovered unknown actors sharing lists with supposed 4chan’s moderator’s login credentials as well overall platform’s staff mailing list.
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