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4chan is shut down by hackers

Sharty, formally /qa/ has succefully hacked and shut down 4chan. leaking not just the sorce code, but passwords and emails of the admins/moderators (jannies)
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you got hacked

Behold the last 4chan post:

chicken jocky


Also, it turns out the the admins were feds (at least some of them)
And others were stupid enough to use school email accounts (.edu) XD

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Reply by Ozzwald

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Admins ranging between high school students and federal agents is something else. I wonder what those federal agents though of /mlp/. Also, I can't believe they got hacked with a 2012 PDF trojan.


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Reply by 🔪˗ˏˋollie ´ˎ˗

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i ain't been on 4chan in a good minute. i used to be kinda active on there last year

making me think about how i should also get off reddit and just use spacehey forums loll


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Reply by Gray

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Huh, so it really was glowies who post most of the extreme political content there


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Reply by C0ntrarianB4KA

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Still getting over my withdrawal symptoms... But, I'm taking this as a sign to finally move on from 4chan, and imageboards in general. 


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Reply by C0ntrarianB4KA

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>Huh, so it really was glowies who post most of the extreme political content there

This doesn't really surprise me. Many years ago, I became a janny for an altchan, and well, let's just say I saw some weird shenanigans. The imageboard closed unexpectedly one day, and when I emailed the owner asking why, he told me he found out some of the moderators were glowies and they were intentionally shitting up the boards. 


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Reply by Gray

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Well that's unfortunate if glowies really aren't that uncommon. Years ago I remember seeing a few on a reddit alternative, but it was a very small amount. 


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Reply by sadsatan

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I genuinely had no clue how to use this website so shrug


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Reply by ✶Rib𓆩𓁺𓆪Eye Black Dragon✶

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For those who don't know it yet, 4chan is back up again. And wouldn't you expect it, anons grew more distrustful of the jannies operating this site. Some say they couldn't update for shite because only Moot knows how it operates. 


Re: sadsatan "I genuinely had no clue how to use this website so shrug"

I stopped buggering with it the moment they have those cooldowns and couldn't let me post for shite when I have my VPN on. I still lurk though.


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