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https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/4chan-the-internets-most-infamous-forum-is-down-following-an-alleged-hack-142516392.html
According to screenshots shared on Imgur, it appears a hacker gained shell access to 4chan's hosting server. They then went on to post images of the site's phpmyadmin page, and appear to have doxed the entire moderation team alongside many of the site's registered users. While it seems some users took steps to protect their identities, many appear to have used their primary email address to register for the forum, with .edu and even .gov addresses reportedly appearing in the list leaked emails.
It's unclear what this means for the future of 4chan, but some social media and Reddit users are speculating this could be the end of the internet's most infamous forum. In addition to doxing much of 4chan's userbase, the hacker also appears to have leaked the site's source code, revealing security holes that have existed since around the time Hiroyuki Nishimura bought the forum from creator Christoper Poole. It may take months to rebuild a more secure version of 4chan.
If this is the end of 4chan, it would be the most significant de-platforming of extreme right-wing internet users since Kiwi Farms temporarily went down in 2022.
- If this is the end of 4chan, it would be the most significant de-platforming of extreme right-wing internet users since Kiwi Farms temporarily went down in 2022.
  Funnily enough Kiwifarms is also contributing here by doxxing 4chan moderators.
  
  You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
- Prepare yourselves
- students doing dumb things isn't new. And at this point the same goes for us officials. But dang is that embarrassing
- I wanted to be surprised that these people didn't do the least bit to protect themselves... but there was no surprise to be found.

End of an era, I don't care what people say. It was full of racist sexist assholes yeah, but it was an institution. Board cultures decades older, in-jokes and culture and everything. Nobody will ever hear about /tg/ again or deal with weird /lgbt/ trip friends anymore.
It's a loss of culture, and all those assholes will just go to Kiwi or X or some other terrible fucking modern social media website. Anonymity is dead. Long live the spynet
- 4chan isn't the only imageboard

Why would 4chan stop existing? Since when do people stop using websites, "just" because user data was leaked? The hosters can just fix the security issue and move on.
- Apparently the source code is full of vulnerabilities severe enough that if they try to put the site back up, it'll be ripped to shreds in an instant.
  Fixing everything might not be viable either. There's a reason the site hasn't been updated much in years, they don't have staff to actively work on it.
  
  You could probably rebuild it in a short amount of time with fewer bugs. It doesn’t seem like that complex of an app.
  I have no idea how much money 4chan which would determine whether it’s worth the effort at all.
  From the bits of code I’ve seen in the leak the quality is pretty terrible.
- Because no one has done shit with it since moot left. As in, the servers haven't had a system update in 7 years.
  No one gives a fuck, that's how sites die
- Even if it would not come back online, wouldn't someone just make some sort of clone and business would continue as usual?
  
  Well, there's been clones out there for a few years already. But I don't think, it's going to be quite as business-as-usual, since they can't coordinate a switch to a specific clone, not to mention this clone very likely does not have the server capacity to take on all the users.

Could anyone tell me where I can access the leak plz? <3
- Got it. Its worth mentioning that the people behind these leaks seem to be Soyjacks, who basically left 4Chan because they felt it was too PC. They are a bunch of racist, omniphobic shitbirds.
  Edit: Also, there's no .gov emails.

I mean, they were kind of asking for it by trying to make as many enemies as possible, if any site would have enemies willing to hack them out of spite it would be 4chan. That combined with the fact they are running old shitty code makes them a prime target.