4chan is partially returned online when a hack took the notorious image-sharing site down for about two weeks.
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At least a time before a time before the extended disappearance of 4chan, journalist Ryan Brodarick wrote for Wires that “began as a hub for internet culture and an anonymous station for the true believers of internet chaos. The station has defeated the central nod of a fan of targets, the central nod of the game, and the world around the world.”
But the 4chan team clearly replied in a post on X: “Wired says’ 4chan is dead.” Is it so? “
And on Friday, the site returned online. Shortly thereafter, a post on the official 4chan blog stated that “a hacker using the UK IP address was able to get access to one of the 4chan servers using” fake PDF upload “, later many of the” Exfiltling database table and 4chan source code, which were discussed.
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.”
