The Founder of 4Chan,Christopher Poole aka "moot" has confirmed few hour ago,in a blogspot that the popular image-based bulletin board was hacked.
The attacker gained access to the administrative function and successfully hacked into 4chan database by exploting a website vulnerability last week.The motive behind the hack was to expose the posting habits of fpecific user the attacker didnt like,moot wrote
It is belived that the software vulnerability allowed attacker to hack into only the image board moderation panel,and some table in 4chan back-end database.According to the blog post, the way hacker extracted the information from its database, 4chan know the detail logs of what was accessed,which indicate that the primaly moderator account name and their credential were targeted and compromised bye the hacker.
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