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Article: Notorious internet forum 4chan was hacked on Tuesday.
At the time of writing, 4chan's website was not loading, and users on social media reported the site being intermittently down for hours. Messages on a rival message board, which TechCrunch has seen, celebrated the hack, with one person claiming that the hacker responsible for the breach was inside 4chan's system "for over a year."
Several screenshots showing what appears to be 4chan's back end circulated online, showing the site's alleged backend, source code, and templates to ban users, which would only be accessible to the site's moderators. Also in the leaked data was a list of alleged 4chan moderators and "janitors," who are users who can delete posts and threads, but have fewer privileges than moderators, who can also see IP addresses of users, for example.
Given 4chan's known violent political ties, this cyberattack could potentially expose the people who run these forums, which have become central to alt-right movements.
TechCrunch reached out to several email addresses that were leaked and spoke to one of the people behind one of the email addresses. One 4chan janitor who spoke to TechCrunch on the condition of anonymity said they are "confident" the leaked data and screenshots are "all real."
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