4chan is back online, says it has been ‘hungry by money’

4chan is partially returned to the Internet after a hack received the infamous image sharing site for nearly two weeks.

Home first went down on April 14with the person responsible for Hack who seems to be leaking the data, including a list of moderators and “goalkeepers” (a goalkeeper told Techcrunch that they were “sure” that the derived data was true).

The prolonged extinction of 4chan led to at least one premature necrology, with journalist Ryan Broderick Writing for Wired that “what began as a center for internet culture and an anonymous station for true anarchic internet believers moved over the years to a fan club for mass shooters, the central Gamergate knot and the heart of the far -right fascism all over the world.”

But the 4chan team responded strangely to A post on x: “Wired says that ‘4chan has died’. Is that so?”

And on Friday, the site returned to the Internet. After a while ,, A post on the official 4chan blog In said that “a hacker using an IP address in the UK” was able to gain access to one of the 4chan servers using a “false PDF charge”, then “exfiltrative database tables and many of the 4chan source code, then began to” vandalize 4chan in which the 4Chan points and servers were made. further access. ”

The damage, the post said, was “catastrophic”.

“After all, this problem was caused by insufficient years capable of updating our code and infrastructure, and being hungry by money for years by advertisers, payment providers and service providers who were successful for external pressure from external campaigns,” the post, “advertisers and paying providers are more. activists in canceling their services. ”

The violated server was subsequently replaced, the post said, although the site has new restrictions – PDF loads are “temporarily disabled”, and a board for sharing flash animations has been left out of line as the team saw “no realistic way to prevent similar uses using .SWF files”.

Since Sunday afternoon, the site status controller showed that the boards and the front page were up, while the post, images and small images were not working.

“4chan is back,” the post said. “No other website can replace it, or this community. No matter how difficult it is, we are not giving up.”