4chan got hacked by the sharty, they restored /QA/, they leaked the jannies passwords, their IRC, the site is slowing down, this is MASSIVE pic.twitter.com/Nzpn6rGl5o
— Priniz (@Priniz_twt) April 15, 2025
MAJOR UPDATE
The sharty anon that hacked 4chan posted the entire source code for 4chan.This isn't just yotsuba.php this is almost everything, I think it might be missing the entire admin backend but I am not sure if I am right or not. pic.twitter.com/iUFOJwDZdo
— Yushe (@_yushe) April 15, 2025
So 4chan very likely got hacked because they were running on an extremely out of date version of PHP that has a lot of vulnerabilities and exploits and are using deprecated function to interact with there MySQL database.
Web security 101: Keep your code and software up to date. pic.twitter.com/JFDOsbr5rt
— Yushe (@_yushe) April 15, 2025
https://twitter.com/punisheddrummer/status/1912086014413136212
"should you choose to verify your email we will not retain long-term records of your email address" well that was a lie lol
4chan emails were just leaked and there's between dozens and hundreds of thousands of rows of them pic.twitter.com/lewSbSKkLu
— JLC96X (@jlc9686933) April 15, 2025
https://twitter.com/lurk_moar1/status/1912117308463714643
Incredible that this is the last post before 4chan went down. pic.twitter.com/T623aicgGH
— Mex (@MexShrimpFry) April 15, 2025
Some funny bits of the 4chan hack I haven't seen mentioned yet:
* The hacker managed to gain root access because the site runs on a version of FreeBSD that was last updated in 2016
* A non-insignificant portion of the janitors/mods that were doxed used .edu emails
* They managed… pic.twitter.com/AzxYbgSuGE— Please Stop Talking Comics (@plsstoptalk) April 15, 2025
h/t Spoon Boy