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4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak


April 2025 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak refers to memes and jokes about the Soyjak.party community supposedly hacking 4chan, restoring the dele

The attackers reportedly exploited outdated PHP code and deprecated MySQL functions in 4chan's backend, particularly in a core script named yotsuba.php, which manages post submissions and moderation. On April 15th, X user @_yushe noted that 4chan was likely hacked because it was using an outdated version of PHP (a coding language used to run the site), which is full of known vulnerabilities, and deprecated (no longer supported) functions to handle its database. Also on April 14th, X user @LumpyTheCook tweeted, "Apparently 4chan is down because someone hacked the lead admin (Hiro) account and started leaking all the mod and janitor emails, contact info, chat logs, etc.

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