US Edition4chan Faces Major Breach, Leaked Data and Prolonged Outages
- Thousands of visitors reported outages on Tuesday, according to DownDetector.
- Users are discussing rumors that the site's source code and database were leaked.
- A hacker gained access to 4chan, exploiting vulnerabilities for the breach.
- Links claiming to contain data stolen from 4chan have appeared on Soyjak and Kiwi Farms.
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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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