4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.

I looked at some of the leaked source code and my god the code smells are so rotten its like they had a dead horse in the back for a while and its developed a stank like an Eric Andre skit.
It increasingly looks like nobody would maintain this bundle of wax besides under-experienced juniors who threw themselves at it, and apparently after moot sold it, it was never touched. It runs on an extremely old version of FreeBSD and PHP.
The fact this happened now as opposed to any time in the past decade is, I have no words.
- I wanna bet attackers probably thought it would be maintained by one or several of the most no-life, chronically-online users of the web... or that they would be waiting for an attack to get revenge in their typical unhinged way... and it turned out no one was maintaining or watching it at all XD
  
  security theater is a quite effective deterrent at times.
  
  Not even 4chaners thought it was worth protecting
- I mean, the source code looks a lot cleaner than WordPress, which is an incredibly sad statement.
  Kill WordPress now.
  
  Also, the owner of Wordpress is allegedly a piece of s...
  
  I'm unconvinced that it's even possible to write clean code in a language as fucked-up as PHP.
  
  Really though, it doesn't.
  Github -> WordPress
  Github -> 4chan
  I absolutely hate the way 4chan formats their HTML + PHP intermingling in views. That's not to say WordPress doesn't do this as well, but oh man in a much better, cleaner, and more sparingly way. The 4chan imageboard view Github -> 4chan is absolute chaos. Why this wasn't rewritten is beyond me. That's just the first thing I see as I peruse the source, I can't imagine it gets much better from here.
  Here's a fun exercise: What's the deepest nest in this loop? Github -> 4chan Bonus points: What's the deepest nested statement in the whole source?
- I looked at some of the leaked source code
  Where? I'd be interested in looking through it too
  
  https://litter.catbox.moe/a8z45n.7z
  
  check some of the other chans and you will find a catbox.moe link to it.
- Didn’t they get hacked pretty regularly in the past?

- Is that the average 4chaner?
  
  Above average.

- Now thats a meme i havent seen in 20 years
  
  It's an older meme sir, but it checks out.
- damn it's even in the original 140p
  
  120x160, actually, but effectively close enough.
  (e: also it's a static image; no need to indicate whether it's interlaced or progressive, because again, it's a static image. And before you get pendantic: yes I'm aware that PNGs can be interlaced or progressive—but this is a JPEG—and those terms mean something completely different when referring to static images, compared to video.)

Start linking up 4chan IDs to real rich people like Musk or republican officials and watch trump start calling for the death penalty for the hacker.
- It’s that incel elon musk starting all those facebook porn threads on /b/.
  I think you guys have a weird idea of what 4chan is.
  
  https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/!SATANZ0Gpo/page/3/
  Allegedly Elon's account.

So, a bunch of trolls got hacked? I’m not sure how I’m expected to feel about this, but frankly, I’m not feeling anything at all.
- As someone who has never actually used 4chan, I have popcorn and am just sitting back and enjoying the shit show
  
  That’s the best way to consume 4chan content.
- well thing is, they might be searching for a new home
  
  Oh many of them are here already.
- It's like a circus, grab popcorn and watch.

someone hacked into the sewer and stole all the turds

I posted an amused and positive comment on the orange site about this and in 2 minutes got a threat about me getting hanged in the near future. Tech bros be panicing.
- I mean, the same will happen here if you post the wrong opinion. It's not that different from Reddit. (See how I used to word and nothing happened, btw?)
  
  I would like to be hung. 😏

Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?
- qa was my favourite 4chan board probably ever. it was a random board like /b/, but strictly SFW. so, they were the creatives of the site. the soyjak memes you see everywhere started there. they got into fights with other boards but it came to a boiling point when they raided 4chans LGBT board, and as a result qa was closed. they moved to another website. that website, or rather one of its users, then spent about a year navigating the very outdated freebsd from a decade ago running on 4chans servers until he was able to access the PHP admin panel, re-open /qa/, and then nuke all files on the server except the homepage. which itself now seems to return an SQL error.
  
  Which site did qa migrate to?
  
  Fascinating. Live by the trolls, die by the trolls.

The hacker known as 4chan hacked himself? 😮
- Who is this anonymous and why does he keep talking to himself?
  
  Come over to Marblecake and I'll explain.
- Turns out the hacker known as 4chan barely knows how his own code.

10000 line file with no comments is honestly relatable as someone who took a job and had to wade through code like that
- My nightmare source was only a few lines less, and it actually was commented. But in French. Label names were also dereived from French. The original author was dead, and Google translate was not yet a thing.
  
  I've seen code where all the comments were simply URL references to tickets on a now deleted Trello board. Great, real helpful thanks.

Is q-anon Elon Musk? What? I'm just asking questions.
- You should check out the HBO documentary on Qanon. It's fantastic. Essentially, no. However, I don't doubt for a second that Elon didn't try to co-opt it at some point.
- What happened to that shit? I hate how something like that can emerge, take hold, push people into conspiracies and the right, literally destroy families, then go away and nobody cares
  
  furthermore, it's reinterpreted as a false flag or something that never really happened - there is never accountability
  ContraPoints did an excellent video on conspiracy theories recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI
- He would certainly take credit for it.
- That would be interesting. I wonder if anyone's done stylometry on those posts

Apparently Elon Musk is mentioned quite frequently in these leaks, but take this with a sea of salt as there is no way to independently verify: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/%21SATANZ0Gpo/page/3/
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeaksAndRumors/comments/1jzqr8c/elon_musks_alleged_unverified_4chan_account/ (archive) summarizes these posts
- As much as I hate Elmo, I still value truth more. There is 0 evidence he's behind that account. And given that the account claims to own Twitter (= claims to be Elmo), it's far more likely to be a troll than a secret-but-not-secret account by the richest fuckface in the world
  
  If you look trough the posts, people were slowly claiming it to be musk and he was slowly confirming it.
  That could ofcourse be a troll too.
  
  Guess the posts times could be crosschecked with times when Musk was in public events or so, not to confirm it is him, but to see if it not

Which one of you is going to hack reddit then?
- ok ok I'll do it

Maybe they could do the world a favour and delete it - along with the backups.
- backups were always against the spirit of 4chan
- No. For the same reason that they didn't demolish Auschwitz. We must learn from our follies, lest we repeat them.
  
  Bro you're giving 4chan waaaaay too much credit wtf, comparing it to literal genocide?
  Come on.
- I doubt there's any such thing as backups, nothing on there is permanent that's why so many archive sites exist.

This amuses me. Fuck that refuse scow

I never liked 4Chan even when /b was the big thing and not the /pol.
- Oh god /pol/ is the hot spot now? I can only imagine the cess pit.
  
  /b/ is just logspammers and porn now.
  And the 15 min wait to post anything has noticeably slowed down any sort of discussion. Posts on /b/ can last for up to a week now because of it

The 4chan Captcha never worked for me, so I stopped trying years ago. I used to go there to troll trolls when I was in a mood.

There just has to be a copy of the database somewhere out there...

Well it looks like 4Chan is ... [puts on shades] NoChan.... YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Not the type of hacktivism we need but the one we deserve.
- The hackers who took 4chan down come from an imageboard known as soyjak.party or "the sharty". They are unironically, in terms of politics, more far right, and in terms of culture, far worse than 4chan from what I've heard and seen from the website.
  
  Yeah - the real freaks left because moot dated like Brianna Wu or something stupid and weird like that. 8chan was the place for a bit.
  4chan is owned by an anime figma company at the moment - i think Nendroid?

What's the point? 4chan seems like such a low value target.
- By my understanding, 4chan left themselves vulnerable which, given the circles they foster, means they were going to be compromised. No fear of reprisal or consequence for it either. Not like when attacking a major corporation or government.
- i'm fairly certain there are more than likely a LOT of politicians on there with very questionable posting records who would probably be on a sex offender registry if it got out.
  
  If they're Republican it won't matter.
- For the lulz!
- For the LULZ obviously.
- For revenge
- The Elon thing is possible, and there's a screenshot in the Reddit thread that's kinda convincing, but I'm still not bought in.
  Tinfoil hat brain is wondering if there's something in there someone's supposed to find but 😂 🤷🏻
- A bunch of chuds got angry that they were banned because they went brigading against LGBTQ+ folk.
  This was the end result
  
  Ah yes, there's no honor amongst thieves.

Is this the end of 4 Chan?
- No, the people who come there are retarded. They will still be retarded in a week or a month from now.
- Who is this 4chan guy?
  https://youtu.be/kRcdmbC0HHs
- If so, it's a fitting way for them to die.
- 4chan died a long time ago.
  
  yet the rotting carcass is still around stinking
  
  When do you consider it died? 2015 when Poole sold it?

That Reddit thread is a very strange experience for someone not of their culture
- That is all 4chan lingo. As a general rule of thumb, if it sounds like something Elon would say, it's from 4chan.
- its like... getting a whiff of something I haven't felt in a long time.
- Lemmy and 4chan do have one thing in common
  Hating reddit.
  
  Also a shady image to the point some people who have only heard of it think it‘s some deep web voodoo. They have that in common somehow.
  
  Of course, they hate Reddit because they can't use hate speech there
- Just remember that the vast majority of those users are in their mid-late 30s or even early 40s. Zoomers and even younger millennials never gave a shit about 4chan.
  
  I think my only contact with 4chan was to get JAV content and also my first contact with torrenting.
  
  Maybe they didn't care to the same degree but unfortunately incel culture was fostered in several areas, and a lot of them are younger than mid 30s.
- more like very sad

Pools closed

They were hacked by Soyjak https://www.soyjak.st/soy/thread/10615723.html#10615802 / https://archive.ph/fxB6N
- the mysterious hacker known as ~~4chan~~ soyjack.
- Damn, I rarely looked at these types of website, but wtf is that. I feel like every post is dumb and worthless. Just spam.
- Is that a person?
- Is it me or does Soyjak use Windows?

Ah, the mysterious hacker known as 4chan.
- It hit itself in confusion!

And nothing of value was lost

They need to hack Reddit.
- In away they did.
  
  Yeah reddit and Lemmy are just auxiliary troll communities to the OG forums like 4chan.
  Same people. Same shitty behaviour just slightly different topics and levels of trolling.