Greentexts, memes, everything 4chan.
Slurs
Slurs
Not sure if this is against the rules or not
The IPs of all janitors and admins have been leaked
4chan's entire tech stack is built of outdated and insecure myPHP
Not sure where the source code is from but I think it's the forum that did all of this in the first place
In the media soon: The notorious hacker 4chan strikes again, his latest victim: 4chan.
I used to use 4chan when I was a teenager, I didn't post much though, mostly just read through stuff. There has been a lot of awful stuff. I used to think it was cool or edgy, but now that I'm older and smarter I don't really think so anymore. Suffice to say, I'm not going to miss 4chan in the slightest.
Freedom isnt always pretty or smart. Especially at the edges. But those edges need to exist. Not for you, but for everyone.
My sentiments exactly. I'm content to watch it burn to the ground.
Not even the world's worst captchca saved them! Maybe if you had to solve one for every letter you type, they wouldn't have gotten hacked.
Can we finally get definitive proof that Taylor Swift is a 4chaner?
Was something of value lost?
/tg/ was fun, but on the whole, no
nope
No, in fact we might begin healing. 🙏
The /GROG/ threads in /tg/ were a constant source of good posts by Oldhammer players and a great resource for links to Oldhammer content that would otherwise be difficult to find.
/WIP/ on /tg/ has given me a lot of great tips throughout the years.
More recently, the Trench Crusade and MCP threads tend to be good for discussion and updates (when they aren't being raided by posters looking to call everything bad just to rustle people).
/k/ has gotten a lot more boring in the last few years as pretty much none of the original crew of tripposters are around anymore, but it can still produce the occasional nugget of good info, and usually has at least a couple of interesting picture threads up. I will say during the initial 2022 invasion times in Ukraine, /k/ had pretty much up to the minute updates and daily info threads for a few years.
Pool's closed.
Cool. It’s 4 chan. What exactly are you gonna expose lol
Apparently some admins had their personal emaild registered, and I heard posts caught the IP of posters.
IPv4 addresses are not permanent and shuffle around a fair amount. There aren't enough addresses to cover the number of devices on the net. You'd need an ISP to map an IP to a specific time range confidently. Governments could do that but they could also do that pre-leak if they were investigating someone.
it feels like this is big news but I can't seem to get myself to care
This is a huge blow to the Russian misinfo machine, unironically. If its down for a while, it will have some big effects
QAnon literally started on 4chan so yeah, definitely!
Leaked Source Code: https://litter.catbox.moe/a8z45n.7z
141K LoC, of which 63K PHP, 45K JS and 31K CSS.
Tokei output:
===============================================================================
Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
===============================================================================
CSS 31 39203 31318 959 6926
INI 89 4269 1833 1401 1035
JavaScript 20 55986 45105 1023 9858
PHP 104 93517 63143 15032 15342
Rakefile 1 109 77 8 24
Ruby 1 74 57 2 15
Plain Text 135 2609 0 2507 102
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HTML 2 83 83 0 0
|- CSS 1 4 4 0 0
|- JavaScript 1 78 60 0 18
(Total) 165 147 0 18
===============================================================================
Total 383 195850 141616 20932 33302
===============================================================================
I know it's a 7z, but still not even a megabyte. That's really impressive.
I mean, this is only source code in text form, there's no assets or anything in the leak. They also don't use composer or any package manager, so there's no large dependencies in the project.
Not really, source code zips ridiculously well. A prolific and dedicated coder could probably fit their entire life's work minus assets on 5 floppy discs
Not me. I code in a big font
I comment in base64 images
Why's anyone surprised this happened? Was 4chan supposed to be a super up to date and modern website?
Maybe because it used to be an important place for hacktivists like Anonymous. So, it was probably an obvious hacking target that could have learned to protect itself better.
Holy shit. Has this ever happened before?
4chan's had leaks before but it was nothing compared to this
I'm giving lainchan a shot to feed my imageboard obsession and I've been pleasantly surprised. The average post is of a higher quality and the mods seem more active. At the same time there are still like memes and greentext culture.
Might look into sushichan too...
Only issue is having to use KurobaEx instead of (Blue) Clover which is a bit clunkier but otherwise I think I can satisfy my shitposting needs.
Is this the work of the mysterious hacker 4 chan?
It is now
Wouldn’t the hackers be able to release more info about the infamous “Q”? Like IP address or something?
Of course its php
That's not a surprise, nor was it unknown. Pretty much all pre-"social media" discussion sites were PHP. Myspace probably was, too. PHP also isn't intrinsically insecure, it just doesn't lend itself very easily to security.
Nothing wrong with php, except not updating it.
Early internet website, php is expected tbh
They prob have infinite tech debt to even consider converting to anything because I doubt they expected 4chan to still be alive in 2025, plus I'm decently sure all funds are being to keep the website alive and not hiring
I wish I cared. But have fun whoever wants this I guess.