4Chan, a controversial forum, known for its culture and Gameergate, does not work after obvious hacking. For the descendingMessages about the shutdown began to circulate late in the evening on Monday, when users were divided by updates on the connection in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday. At the time of writing this article, you can access the website after a long delay, but pressing to any of the links to the board leads to a time -auta.
In accordance with Screenshots shared on IMGUR (NSFW Warning), it seems that the hacker gained access to the 4Chan hosting. Then they published images of the PHPMYADMIN page on the site and, it seems, finished the entire moderation team along with many registered site users. While some users took steps to protect their personalities, many seemed to use their main email address for registration for the forum, with the addresses of .edu and even. GOV, which are reported, appear in the list of surveyed emails.
It is unclear what this means for the future 4Chan, but some social media And Reddit users It is suggested that this can be the end of the most infamous well -known forum on the Internet. In addition to Doxing, most of the 4Chan users base, the hacker also, according to the visible, leaked the source code of the site, revealing the safety holes that have existed since Hiroyuki Nishimura bought the forum from the creator of Christoper Pula. It may take months to restore a safer 4Chan version.
If this is the end of 4Chan, this would be the most significant de-platformation of extreme right users of the Internet, since the Farm of Kiwi is temporarily went down in 2022Field