4Chan is in part online after a trick took the infamous image exchange site for almost two weeks.
The site was first reduced on April 14, with the person responsible for the trick apparently filtering data, including a list of moderators and “concierge” (a janitor told Techcrunch that they were “sure” that the leaked data were real).
The extended disappearance of 4Chan led to at least one premature obituary, with the journalist Ryan Broderick Write for Wired That “what began as a center for Internet culture and an anonymous road station for true anarchic believers of the Internet became over the years a club of admirers for mass shooters, the central node of Gamergate and the heart that hits the fascism of the extreme right worldwide.”
But the 4chan team responded challenging A publication in X: “Wired says ‘4Chan is dead’. Is that like that?”
And Friday, the site He returned online. Shortly after, An official 4Chan blog post In this “a hacker who uses an IP address of the United Kingdom” he was able to access one of the 4chan servers using a “false pdf load”, later “exfiltrating the database tables and much of the 4chan source code”, then beginning to “vandalize 4chan in which the knit moderators became aware and the 4chan servers stopped. additional”.
The damage, the post said, was “catastrophic.”
“Ultimately, this problem was caused by having insufficient qualified man hours available to update our code and infrastructure, and be hungry for money for years by advertisers, payment providers and service providers that had succumbed to external pressure campaigns,” said the publication, and then the payment services and the suppliers of payment willing to work with 4chan are rarely For activists to activists to their activists to their activists to activists who cancel their services. “
The raped server was subsequently replaced, said the publication, although the site has new limitations: PDF loads are “temporarily” disabled, and a plate for sharing Flash animations has been left without connection since the equipment did not see “a realistic way to avoid similar exploits using .swf files.”
Until Sunday afternoon, the state verifier showed that the tables and the cover were acted, while they published, images and miniatures did not work.
“4Chan is back,” said the post. “No other website can replace it, or this community. No matter how much it is, we are not giving ourselves.”
