4CHAN is partly back online after hacking has lowered the infamous image sharing site for almost two weeks.
The site fell for the first time on April 14, the person responsible for piracy who apparently discloses data, including a list of moderators and “concierges” (a concierge told Techcrunch that they were “confident” that the data disclosed were real).
The prolonged disappearance of 4chan led to at least one premature Billology, journalist Ryan Broderick Write for wired This “what started as a hub for Internet culture and a station anonymously for anarchic believers of the Internet has devoted over the years to a fan club for mass shooters, the central knot of Gamergate and the beating heart of extreme right fascism in the world.”
But the 4Chan team responded with challenge A post on x: “Wired says that” 4chan is dead “. Is that so? “
And Friday, the site I came back online. Shortly after, An article on the official blog 4CHAN In the said “Pirate using a UK IP address” was able to access one of the 4Chan’s servers using a “Download of PDF of False”, subsequently “Exfiltant database tables and a large part of the 4CHAN source code”, then starting to “vandalize 4CHAN to which the points moderators became aware and the 4CHAN servers additional”.
Damage, depending on the position, was “catastrophic”.
“In the end, this problem was caused by the insufficient provision of the hours of skilled man to update our code and our infrastructure, and be hungry for years by advertisers, payment providers and service providers who had succumbed to external pressure campaigns”, said post, adding later, “advertisers and payment providers for work with 4CHAN are rare pressed by activists by the activities of their service. “
The violated server was later replaced, depending on the message, although the site has new limitations – PDF downloads are “temporarily” deactivated, and a card to share flash animations has been left offline because the team has seen “no realistic means of preventing similar exploits using .SWF files”.
From Sunday afternoon, the site status verifier showed that the advice and the first page were in place, while the publication, the images and the miniatures did not work.
“4chan is back,” said the position. “No other website can replace it or this community. No matter how difficult it is, we don’t give up. “
