The 4chan is partly back to the internet after a hack got the famous image sharing for almost two weeks.
The site was first reduced on April 14, with the hack manager apparently leaking data, including a list of coordinators and “jainitors” (a techcrunch janitor was “sure” that the data that was actually was).
Extended 4chan disappearance led to at least one premature necrology, with journalist Ryan Broderick Writing for wired This “what started as a hub for internet culture and an anonymous station for the anarchist true loyalists on the internet have been transferred over the years to a fan club for mass shooters, the central hub of gamergate and the heart of far -right fascism worldwide.”
But the 4chan team responded provocatively a post on x: “Wired says” 4chan is dead. “Is it like that?”
And Friday, the site Returned to the internet. A little later, A post on the official 4chan blog In that “a hacker using an UK IP address” was able to access one of the 4chan servers using a “false PDF upload”, then “exhausting the database tables and a large part of the 4chan source code”, starting to “4chan Mountains”.
The damage, the post said, was “devastating”.
“In the end, this problem was caused by the existence of insufficient specialized human hours available to inform our Code and Infrastructure and have been starving money for years by advertisers, payment providers and service providers who had been subjected to external pressure campaigns,”
The violated server was then replaced, the post said, although the site has new restrictions – PDF transformations are “temporarily” disabled and a council for sharing flash moving images has been offline as the team saw “there is no realistic way to avoid.
Since Sunday afternoon, the site’s status controller showed that the tables and the first page were up, while the posting, images and thumbnails did not work.
“4chan is back,” the post said. “No other site can replace it, or this community. No matter how difficult it is, they don’t give up.”
