4chan 2025 MegaHack

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The story begins on November 3rd, 2021, when Hiroyuki made the decision to close the /qa/ board. That decision set events into motion that few could foresee. It resulted in the birth of the Soyjak Party, a board that the jannies initially dismissed as a one trick pony, for how long could a site last based on one joke? They had a comfy, tidy gig - /b/ was full of porn, /g/ was full of the same tedious arguments, /pol/ was just collective seething over Twitter screenshots, /r9k/ was one blackpill after another.

Sure, it didn't have the same vitality as before. But that didn't matter - the site was now at retirement age, and things were kept stable thanks to its band of devoted jannies (they did it for free). It didn't need any maintenance - because who knows or cares about PHP in 2025? They were confident that as things had been, so they would always be. 4chan had calcified, and that meant it was basically unbreakable.

On April 14th, 2025, 4chan was BRUTALLY hacked by a soyteen who promptly leaked images of the site's admin board. Emails, jannies' family info, and so on were all released to the public as well. As of April 15, 2025, 4chan is down. And, hey.. maybe this is the end of 4chan. If it is, so long and thanks for all the fish. (until they arise from the ashes again a few days later and continue ofc)

How To

The hax was achieved through an improperly sanitised upload of a PDF. It used an exploit in a hilariously outdated 2012 version of GhostScript that 4chan was using, whereby the hacker gained root. Other revelations include that the Yotsuba codebase is held together with prayers, duck tape and chewing gum, but it is now open source so you too can help fix it! The infrastructure is somehow worse than that of ED's, making it a wonder that this hack hadn't happened sooner. In fact, such lax security is clear evidence that 4chan was a CIA honeypot all along.

Soyjak.party has allegedly taken credit for the cyberattack.[1]

4cope pasta

Threads of 4chan rapefugees descended upon the boards of soy, and this pasta emerged from the collective unconscious of the sharty:

You are all so fucking retarded. I was waiting for my favourite meetup thread to appear on /soc/, I was so happy to wait and see if there are any meetups next to me. And you know what? YOU HAD TO TAKE DOWN THE SITE!!!! I hope you all kill yourself, stupid retarded faggots. Your mothers should have aborted you long time ago zoomers.
None of you are funny. None of your memes will ever be popular. Nobody outside of your little circle jerk will ever like you. The soyjaks you love so much are ugly, retarded images that aren’t funny. 
This is your moment of glory, taking down a site that you’ll never rival.

There is a darker possibility that this was real, and some poor anon was stifled just as he was about to meet frens IRL and become normal. RIP.

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Cobson is root
Finally, a post from hiroyuki!
Full janny dox, why not send them a nice email thanking them for their generous voluntary work?
AGH ME /SOC/!
NUKED FROM ORBIT