REPORT: Extremist Site 4chan Hacked, Mods Exposed

404 Media reports:

The notorious imageboard 4chan is down following what appears to be a major hack of its backend. The hackers claim to have exposed code for the site, the emails of moderators, and a list of mod communications. This happened, it seems, as part of a five year long, inter-image board beef between users of 4chan and Soyjak, another image board that splintered off of 4chan.

It’s still unclear what the fallout of the hack will be, but the notorious image board remains down and a huge amount of data appears to have been leaked.

Users struggled to load 4chan on the evening of April 14, 2025, according to posts on other imageboards and forums. A few hours before that, the banned board /qa/ reappeared on the site and someone using the hiroyuki account, named after 4chan’s owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, posted “FUCKING LMAO” and “U GOT HACKED XD.

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4chan’s source code was leaked. The site is in shambles. Attacks are coming from every angle and the site is down..

This is officially the end of an era pic.twitter.com/E8kfdU0kf9

— kicks_mechanic (@Kicks_mechanic) April 15, 2025

> 4chan hacked
> entire source code accessed
> admins exposed/doxxed, some own .edu and .gov addresses
> private ban reasons exposed
> user IP info obtained
> entire site ran on outdated PHP
> last post ever was chicken jockey

Could it be any worse for them right now?

— Optimus ⛩️ (@SubToOptimus) April 15, 2025

Apparently all the janitor and moderator emails have been leaked.
Some of the emails contain .edu domains for American universities.

— Yushe (@_yushe) April 15, 2025