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Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins
Though the exact details of the situation have not been confirmed, community infighting seems to have spilled out in a breach of the notorious image board.
After a breach a decade ago, 4chan founder Christopher Poole, known online as “moot,” wrote in a blog post that “[we] have spent—and will continue to spend—dozens of hours poring over our software and systems to help mitigate and prevent future intrusions. Emiliano De Cristofaro, a computer science and engineering professor at University of California, Riverside, who has researched the impact of 4chan on the web, says the ramifications could be large if the hack is confirmed. These include images of someone with administrator access to a 4chan backend database, stats about users on various sections of 4chan, a page showing deleted posts and the IP addresses they were made from, as well as other internal documentation.
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