US Edition4chan Faces Major Breach, Leaked Data and Prolonged Outages
- Thousands reported that 4Chan is down, with more than 200 complaints in the US, according to Downdetector.
- The hacker or hackers leaked all the lead admin and janitor emails and chat logs, raising concerns among users.
- 71% of the problems reported to Downdetector are related to the 4Chan website.
- Users are worried that the leak of the source code might lead to unlimited access to individual IP addresses, leading to potential misuse.
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4chan hacked, obliterated and unlikely to be back soon
To quote the immortal words of a well-meaning but ill-informed CNN reporter, "just who is this 4Chan?" To paraphrase the immortal words of Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction, "4Chan's dead, baby. 4Chan's dead." If you've been around on the Internet for any length of time, you've heard of 4Chan, the infamous anonymous message board that has (among other things) made groundbreaking strides in mathematics, popularized just about every meme you've seen on…
The far-right popular discussion platform 4chan was taken down after the site was allegedly hacked.
The 4chan discussion board has been down since Tuesday. If 4chan administrators can't get the site back up and running, a significant piece of internet culture will be lost.
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