4chan, a notorious online forum, was taken offline earlier today after what appears to be a significant hack and has since been loading intermittently. “4chan is an anonymous message board that enables often offensive and hateful content 4chan info was leaked online
4chan goes dark as hacker breaches site and leaks user information
The hack revealed that moderators had a special internal tool that let mods view the location, ip address and other info of anonymous users.
4chan is officially back online today
The imageboard site had been down for 10 days, ever since a hack that restored its /qa/ board and leaked the emails of its lead administrators (called janitors) hit the site last week. A massive breach revealed 4chan's source code, emails, and internal strife, as the controversial imageboard faces a new kind of chaos. But the alleged hack seems to be the coup de grâce for the group 4chan mods, understandably, seem a bit worried about their information getting leaked.
