4chan penetrated by a gang of soyjaks…

Today we’re diving into the muck of the internet to find out how the 4chan imageboard got hacked and by who, as well as covering the major cybersecurity rollercoaster of the CVE programme’s defunding and refunding.

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4 chan hack explained.
Why was CVE defunded & refunded?
Who hacked 4 Chan? Soyjack party
Hacking php with pdf’s using postscript and ghostscript
A warning to update your code base.
4chan janitors doxxed

[ndle_king]

This isn't the way I'd always expected 4chan to be taken down due to its handling of pdf files.

[laza_ru_s]

4chan has fallen, millions must go outside

[benjiunofficial]

Personally I'm proud that 4chan's backend proved to be an unmaintained piece of shit. That sort of authenticity is rare in 2025

[douglascodes]

It's not hacking when you break a PHP website. It hacking when you get one to work.

[GravitasZero]

4chan has fallen, 12 people and 90000 bots need to now go and touch grass, 12 of them will surely fail in that quest

[Willow-Eversong]

this makes sense. moot sold 4chan back in 2015 and it was likely updated one last time in 2016. coincidentally, it was also likely the last time Nishimura thought about the site.

[llLorenzoll]

From dirt we came, to dirt we return.
Ashes to ashes, dust do dust.

[mazzaleen]

>USAID gets defunded and shut down
>Glowie chan gets hacked soon after

Coincidence?

[geroutathat]

Well I have heard some devs say "If its working dont touch it", but this takes it to new extremes, don't touch ANYTHING.

[MudkipWithShades]

The last 4chan post being a Chicken Jockey is crazy.

[augustday]

JANNY ARE YOU OK?
JANNY ARE YOU OK?
ARE YOU OK JANNY?

[elzabethtatcher]

> 4chan
> accounts
Is this how far they have fallen?

[SneedFeedAndSeed]

>unable to access their accounts
>defunct forum
newGODS...

[min_ode]

In a basement somewhere a mountain dew bottle shattered on its own.

[lilpepe]

Sometimes I feel like this entire debacle was a screenshot into the golden wild-western days of the internet. Back when real dorks used to rule the landscape. Not jannies, corpos and IDF operatives.

[highbread]

The fact this was done with an easily findable vulnerability using a common public feature... i know 18yos who used to do this type of thing. Im shocked it didn't happen earlier, and that the security was *that* bad. It might have been secretly compromised earlier

[BOLP]

They banned me for shit posting the night it went down, now they're banned from doing it for free.

[Ihatmyif]

Honestly it's a breath of fresh air that the hackers actually had to find a vulnerability in the backend instead of relying on phishing or other methods.

[Oskar]

"hackers hacked it like hackers hack in hacking movies" brilliant 😂

[futuza]

It seems, at last, the hacker known as 4chan has been humbled.