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Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by OuterVale » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 12:18 PM UTC

Posted link is a tad vulgar and scarce on information. A bit of a collection forming on The Sun's live blog post:

Thousands of 4Chan users report issues accessing controversial website - https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/34472708/4chan-down-updates-co...

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by LightBug1 » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 12:19 PM UTC

GaggiX wrote: post #3

CamelCaseName wrote: post #2

If you lamented the disappearance of the "old internet", well, this was a part of it, and now it may be gone too. The title is also a fair bit understated. They're leaking the moderators home addresses and work contact info (for admins, who are(were?) paid moderators)

Do you think that 4chan is going to disappear forever for this? Just wait a bit and it will be back. Also where did you see that they are leaking home addresses and work contact info? I think they just leaked the emails (I don't understand why home addresses and work contact info should be present in the 4chan database, everyone moderating the site for free).

I'm not up to speed - but isn't that a free-speech absolutist site?

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by TheAceOfHearts » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 12:19 PM UTC

There's a KnowYourMeme [0] post with additional details and context. Most interesting to me is finding out that there' s a word filer / transformer, so SMH becomes BAKA and TBH becomes DESU, as two examples.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/april-2025-4chan-hack

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by swarnie » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 12:20 PM UTC

One of the best websites on the internet. Hopefully not gone forever.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by pelagicAustral » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 12:21 PM UTC

jsheard wrote: post #11

cbg0 wrote: post #8

Hosting a copy of phpMyAdmin behind basic HTTP authentication in 2025 really is asking for it.

I was kinda surprised to see that phpMyAdmin is still maintained, albeit only barely. The last release was in January but before that it hadn't been touched for over two years.

This stuff is still packaged with cPanel, which is probably the most common way to manage web servers on the internet.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by ltbarcly3 » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 12:21 PM UTC

knowknow wrote: post #12

CamelCaseName wrote: post #2

If you lamented the disappearance of the "old internet", well, this was a part of it, and now it may be gone too. The title is also a fair bit understated. They're leaking the moderators home addresses and work contact info (for admins, who are(were?) paid moderators)

Is it considered part of it? From my understanding, the culture has changed significantly and post get auto deleted eventually, so it’s not a good archive either. The only thing old about it is it’s web design

Posts always got auto deleted. Maybe you aren't familiar with how it worked.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by vlovich123 » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 12:21 PM UTC

idiotsecant wrote: post #13

JKCalhoun wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we can lament the old internet and still care nothing for 4chan.

Like it or not, 4chan was a major hub of Internet culture. Especially early on some of the best stuff on the internet happened on 4chan (and a good chunk of the worst, of course)

4chan was founded in 2003. I think reasonable people probably disagree on what constitutes the “early” internet and this is where the argument is. Google had been around for 5 years by this point and I (and I suspect many others) remained blissfully unaware of 4chan for a long time after 2003.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by delusional » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 12:22 PM UTC

geriatric-janny wrote: post #15

My official association with 4chan ended in 2010, but I still recognise a good third of those names and would wager the leak is legit.

What kind of official association could one have with 4chan? 4chan was formative for my early connection to the internet, and I'm really curious what the organization behind it looked like. Was it professionally driven, or just some random guy mailing checks? stuff like that.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by whalesalad » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 12:22 PM UTC

cbg0 wrote: post #8

Hosting a copy of phpMyAdmin behind basic HTTP authentication in 2025 really is asking for it.

A tale as old as time

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by jsheard » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 12:23 PM UTC

LightBug1 wrote: post #22

GaggiX wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think that 4chan is going to disappear forever for this? Just wait a bit and it will be back. Also where did you see that they are leaking home addresses and work contact info? I think they just leaked the emails (I don't understand why home addresses and work contact info should be present in the 4chan database, everyone moderating the site for free).

I'm not up to speed - but isn't that a free-speech absolutist site?

Mostly, but the few restrictions they do have led to even absolutist-er spinoffs like 8chan being founded.