4chan hack suspicion can exhibit long -standing and anonymous supervisors
The anonymous 4chan image page has been survived for many years. These user sanctions and advertisers, as well as damaging charges that this hate conversation may have fueled mass shootings. Users are formed in 4chan to plan hacks such as DDOS attacks, and conspiracy theories that have been created in 4chan, even reportedly inspired the January 6 rebellion in the US capital. However, Monday night and Tuesday, the platform, after a series of disconnection, resulted in speculation that the site was hacked.
The main feature of 4chan for text and images is to stay unknown, but the platform itself collects information about users such as their IP address. As a result, a website violation can indicate a significant exposure to the data intended.
“4chan is an anonymous message page that often enables offensive and disgusting content,” says Ian Gray, a director of analysis and research at Flashpoint Security. Gary says the image board bill as a “anonymous” platform may have given users “false security” users. “Some users may have registered their email address many years ago, who were less aware or worried about their operational security.”
Reports of appearance hacking were broadcast after a ban on the ban on the 4chan 4chan, and the site with a message that says, “You have been hacked XD.” Subsequently, an online account in a competing forum known as soyjak.party shows released images that are said to be 4chan’s inner systems, plus a list of 4chan alleged supervisors and usernames, with relevant email addresses. Following this post from 4chan administrator email addresses, users soyjak.party began to send claimed Doxes including photos and personal information from the accounts in the leak.
Wired has failed to confirm whether data is legal. A press email address associated with 4chan, as well as two claimed manager emails from the leaked data immediately did not respond to Wired requests to comment on hacking and its credit. According to the Techcrunch report, one of the site’s presenters said they believe that hacking is real.
The rumors also began to circulate on Tuesday, which is the result of the 4chan -based legacy, with no use that has exposed the coin to the attack. After a decade ago, the founder of the 4chan Christopher Money, known as “MoOT”, wrote in a blog post: “[We] You’ve spent – and continue your costs – many hours to use our software and systems to help reduce and prevent future interference. We’re sorry that this happened, and we will do our best to ensure that it will not happen again. “
Emiliano de Cristofaro, a professor of computer science and engineering at UC Riverside, who has researched the 4chan impact on the web, says that if the hack approves, these results can be high.
“It seems that the 4chan has not been properly maintained for many years, which may show that a hack was definitely possible,” says two Christophauo. “Some” outstanding “users who are exposed as observers may seriously hate 4chan, so they may be targeted. It may be difficult or at least painful to recover 4chan, so we may really see the end of 4chan as we know.”
