Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[Waff]

I'm both surprised and not at the same time that they had no backups, no plan for when shit hit the fan, especially considering the site is still dead the only thing I imagine they can do is nuke and start again.

Reminds me of the ifunny I hope you have backups hack that happened a month or so ago, except this time funnier.

 

[(°▽°)]

I didn’t know a “proper” site hack like that was still possible.

Wow, rare sighting of an InfoSec specialist in the wild!

 

[cloudyy]

so it's already over. nothing new is happening and the site will back within a day.
nothing ever happens
ever
happens

 

[Chudborean]

I hope Null disables registrations for at least a month, the flood will be terrible.

Unnecessary, the site will likely go back to normal later today. I highly doubt the staff would just kill it.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Nigger, 4cuck was full of pedos and it was glorifying pedo culture in the active boards. Jannies/mods/admins were clearly allowing it and now there's proof on top of it all.
/v/ /vg/ /pol/ /r9k/ /tv/ were full of loliposters.

I hope Null disables registrations for at least a month, the flood will be terrible.

This is the real take. The channers are going to migrate if 4chan doesn't come back up? Remember Tumblr? It's that but worse.

 

[Emperor Yakub]

I didn’t know a “proper” site hack like that was still possible.

Sites like Google pay cold cash for hunting down bugs and security exploits like what was probably used to hack 4chan in order to prevent something like this happening.

 

[polaris_VII]

Just tried to post on /qa/ as a "why not" thing and I got the April Fools error instead of the usual one. I'm hoping that some idiot will just click a button to unlock every board in a few hours and not realize that /qa/ is supposed to be locked. Or maybe the code is shit and it's already been unlocked but some sort of override will be engaged/like an error state. Not because /qa/ was good, but the chaos would be amazing.

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Well, I was wrong, but that aged better than I thought it would.

 

[(°▽°)]

I didn’t know a “proper” site hack like that was still possible.

Wow, rare sighting of an InfoSec specialist in the wild!

2chan (Futaba Channel) has a thread on the hack.

First post reads as this when translated from Japanese to English:
4chan is dead. All user passwords leaked in hack. Administrators' identities leaked (also apparently a list of FBI agents). This is bad!!!

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First post is, with some license, "You get what you fucking deserve"

 

[Jace on ice]

Inb4 a 10,000% increase in trannies and BBCposters.

 

[AUTOEXEC2.BAT]

Something more about jannies/mods identifying users,

It's already well known (prior to getting haxed) that with the new email verification they were lying through their teeth when it came to the emails not being stored
But from what I've seen over the years on 4chan, people get permabanned for "ban evasion" with no explanation. This happens on a couple boards, /v/ and adjacent, /r9k/, /lgbt/ etc.
I used to know a tripfag (if you don't know what this is, basically a drooling loser) who got banned for ban evasion in around 2023, despite never having done so and never breaking any rules. Story goes that there was a particular mod who had it out for him, and over the years he's repeatedly been getting banned for no reason. He went to IRC and everything to get things cleared up, got unbanned, only to get banned again a day later.
So what irks me is, they're able to identify the user not just by IP (or email nowadays), since the tripfag (drooling loser) I knew moved places. So the mod would frequent the thread he also frequented, was able to identify who the user was (probably image hash, post style, etc) and ban his ass.

Honestly quite a sad thing that you have to spend all your day watching a thread for this One Evil User In My Compooter I DONT LIKE!!@#!@ just to ban them, but also pretty creepy behavior. Source: trust me bro
Fuck jannies and fuck juice yknow

 

[The Lawgiver]

Where sidson

Taken to the an!me realm. pray for h!m.

 

[project_thorne]

I have fully revealed the identity of one of the 4chan mods.

"Aeolian" aka Glenn Michael Cianci, 34, of Fresno, California

5291 E Townsend Ave, Fresno, CA 93727
Other addresses in New York (High Falls) and Clovis, CA confirmed.

Phone number: (845) 332-7381

Probable relationship with Dawn E Cianci, aged 33.

Passwords: boneguy, copper77, potato

I hit the second janny! This is "Mr VacBob," an admin.

Name: Alex Strange of Union, New Jersey.

Email: astrange@gmail.com

Phone: (973) 371-8718

Address: 129 Mill Road, Union, NJ, 07083

He has a female relative, Allison, who lives at 628 David Ct in Freehold Borough. Her phone number is (859) 358-7501, and her Spotify account can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/user/classystiles . She also has a Wattpad page, which can be found here: https://mobile.wattpad.com/list/423683648-- .

He also has a Trello account, which can be found here. https://trello.com/alexstrange1

Note: I was going to cover a janny in Lake Grove, Illinois whom I found information through an obituary, but it didn't seem right to exploit another person's death for my own gain.

 

[not william stenchever]

Apparently jannies pulled the database before the 'teen could extract it. He tipped his hand.

I recommend flaying followed by impalement. This lack of proficiency cannot go unpunished.

 

[LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2]

I am just shocked that it didn't happen sooner.

 

[Hitman One]

Quite a few users do apparently, depending on the board.

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>/g/ underage user
I bet that fat fuck janny was licking his lips.

 

[The Tard Overseer]

Kiwifarms front page: “4Chan has just been hacked.”

 

[Punished Magician]

Strange timing. I heard .gay just got booted by cloudflare, though the thread I found talking about it was deleted before much information was shared beyond the alleged email from cloudflare, and I'm not going to that nonce shithole to find any further explanation myself.

Unnecessary, the site will likely go back to normal later today. I highly doubt the staff would just kill it.

Not happening until at the bare minimum they've upgraded the OS, confirmed the site still functions and nothing broke, fully assess the damage, fully assess how exactly it was breached, and implement at least some band-aid fix such that they're confident it won't just immediately happen again. Consider the speed at which that would happen, and how few (and inactive) the people are that would be responsible for something this high-level and how hands-off and complacent those people are.

Maybe sometime this week, but definitely not a case of "just reboot and flip the switch back on, baddabing baddaboom <24hr downtime"

 

[Vinluv Handesbukia]

Taken to the an!me realm. pray for h!m.

He will destroy it in due time. Anime is will be no more.

 

[boxybum]

This was likely an inside job. Mod went rogue.

 

[Jerry1337]

I hold no sympathy towards 4chin faggots. They have been on a downward spiral for almost a decade at this point.

I would also want to kindly ask for disabling the registration for the time being, I don't want these gooner freakazoids coming here.