We cannot meme our way out of fascism. An article on 4chan as the news unfolds that it has been hacked.
#4chan #Hope #Fascism
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/4/6/how-musk-ushered-4chan-into-us-politics

Imagine using your .gov or .edu email address to create an account on 4Chan....

Damn, Good Smile didn't invest enough in 4chan's security I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(In case you hadn't heard, 4chan has suffered from a colossal and likely site ending hack.)

https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-good-smile/

Pictured: A 4chan moderator

tHe eNd oF A LeGaCy?!?

Cyber-attacks are not only an existential threat to businesses, they can also hit underground message boards: the infamous website 4chan, known not only for being an endless source of memes, but also for doxxing and coordinating cyber-attacks, spreading hate and conspiracy theories, has itself been hit by hackers.

The site has been offline since early this morning and internal data, including emails from moderators and the admin and parts of the source code, have been leaked. Many users who used to post anonymously on the message board are now worried about the consequences of their online behaviour.

The details of the hack are still unknown, but an outdated PHP tech stack seems to be the reason why access to databases, source code etc. is now possible. Reading about outdated PHP and leaked source code, and possibly database takeover, we immediately think of an unpatched RCE vulnerability, but we will probably find out soon.

Fellow Pachyderms! #4Chan is fucked! START POPPING MAIZE!!!!!!! (LOTS of interesting e-mail and IP addresses too. Like .Gov and .Edu, for example.)

"4chan hacked, internal data leaked on rival image board

"The hack appears to include the usernames and email addresses of the site’s anonymous moderators..."

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/4chan-hack-data-leak/

Hearing that 4chan has been hacked BADLY and all the freaks who post their bigotries and creepiness there might get doxxed.....

If I was a fediverse admin right now with open registrations (why are you doing that?!!), given the #4chan hack, now would probably be a great time to finally close them down. There's about to be a lot of very angry and lonely trolls looking for somewhere to lash out

4Chan hacked; Taken down; Emails and IPs leaked

Apparently they were not only running an old, unsecure version of PHP their entire stack was outdated.

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/14029069/4chan-down-updates-controversial-website-hacking/

Die kontroverse Plattform #4chan wurde allem Anschein nach gehackt. Angreifer erbeuteten sensible Daten und legten die Website lahm. Veralteter PHP-Code und unsichere MySQL-Funktionen ermöglichten den Angriff. https://winfuture.de/news,150351.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

Royal Holloway University of London: Disturbing findings in new study reveal unregulated internet platforms are a breeding ground for racism, misogyny and religious hate. “Platforms such as these remain breeding grounds for extreme ideologies, with the latest study delving into the troubling prevalence of hate speech on 4chan’s politically incorrect discussion board, known as /pol/, using […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/08/royal-holloway-university-of-london-disturbing-findings-in-new-study-reveal-unregulated-internet-platforms-are-a-breeding-ground-for-racism-misogyny-and-religious-hate/

(Musk actually is what the right thinks Soros is)

Musk’s “random” lottery winner revealed as Republican operative

**Musk’s “random” lottery winner revealed as Republican operation**

https://youtu.be/w8huZgcm2y4?si=3OPJanDSSCU48NOa

"The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House #X Account. Welcome to the #4chan administration": https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/gleeful-cruelty-white-house-x-account/682234/

"The White House account posted about Basora-Gonzalez again yesterday—this time, rendering her capture in the animated style of the beloved Japanese filmmaker Hayao #Miyazaki..."

Asco.