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Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"It appears that 4chan was susceptible to a hack because it was running very out of date code that contained various vulnerabilities, according to 404 Media’s look at the code and people sorting through the hack online.</p><p>That starts to answer the question of how this happened. But why did it happen? This all has roots in a five year old meme fight.</p><p>Soyjak.party, the site where a user began posting about the 4chan hack, was an offshoot of 4chan created as a joke about five years ago. Besides being a general cesspool, <br>4chan has long been a place that incubates memes. lolcats, the NavySeal copypasta, and Pepe the Frog grew and spread on 4chan’s imageboards. From time to time a meme is overplayed or spammed and mods on the site get tired of it.<br> <br>Five years ago, users spammed the /qa/ board with soyjaks. Unable to quash the tide of soyfaced jpegs, 4chan shut down the entire /qa/ board. The soyajk loving exiles of 4chan started a new site called soyjak.party where they could craft open mouthed soyboy memes to their heart’s content. When 4chan was hacked on the night of April 14, the /qa/ board briefly returned. “/QA/ RETURNS SOYJAK.PARTY WON” read a banner image at the top of the board.</p><p>As of this writing, 4chan is still down."</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/4chan-is-down-following-what-looks-to-be-a-major-hack-spurred-by-meme-war/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/4chan-is-down-foll</span><span class="invisible">owing-what-looks-to-be-a-major-hack-spurred-by-meme-war/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/4Chan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>4Chan</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hacking</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Soyjak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Soyjak</span></a></p>
Hackread.com<p>NEW 🚨 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/4chan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>4chan</span></a> is down since morning, and a hacker from rival forum <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Soyjak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Soyjak</span></a> claims responsibility, alleging source code leak and backend access.</p><p>Read: <a href="https://hackread.com/4chan-breached-soyjak-forum-hacker-source-code-leak/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackread.com/4chan-breached-so</span><span class="invisible">yjak-forum-hacker-source-code-leak/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DataBreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataBreach</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/4chanDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>4chanDown</span></a></p>
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