4chan is partially returned online when a hack took the notorious image-sharing site down for about two weeks.
Place First went down on 14 AprilWith the person responsible for the hack, apparently leaked data, including models and “watchmen” (a watchman “told Techcrunch that they were” convinced “that the leaked data was real).
4chan’s extended disappearance with journalist Ryan Broaderick at least a time premature Wires writing It began as a hub for the Internet culture and an anonymous station for the internet chaotic true believers developed over the years, the central node of the gamergate and a fan to the heartbeat of far-flung fascism around the world. “
But 4chan team clearly responded A post on X: “Wired says’ 4chan is dead.” Is it so? “
And on Friday, site Back onlineShortly after, A post on the official 4chan blog It has been said that “a hacker using UK IP address” was able to get access to one of the 4chan servers using “fake PDF upload”, later a lot of information was given to “then” Wandliz 4chan and 4Chan’s server was stopped, “then” then “Wandlie’s 4chan was given more information and 4Chan’s server was stopped.
Disadvantage, the post said, “frightening”.
“Finally, this problem occurred due to inadequate skilled human-hour available to update our code and infrastructure, and due to advertisers, payment providers and service providers being hungry with money for years, who used to die for external pressure campaigns,” later, “to add advertisers and payment products,”
The brioch server was later replaced, the post said, although the site has new boundaries – PDF uploads are “temporarily” disabled, and a board has been left offline to share flash animation as the team has not seen any realistic way to prevent similar feats.
By Sunday afternoon, the status checker of the site showed that the boards and the front pages were up, while posting, image and thumbnails were not working.
“4chan is back,” the post said. “No other website can change it, or this community. No matter how difficult it is, we are not giving up.”
