Its founder by clicking hereς 4chan, Christopher poole, also known as “moot” confirmed a few hours ago, with a post on their blog, that the popular website was hacked.
The attacker managed to gain access to the website's admin panel and from there managed to gain a foothold data of 4chan exploiting a software vulnerability.
His motivation for the attack was given to the hacker when he read a publication of the moot and did not like it. It is believed that the vulnerability of the software allowed the attacker to gain access not only to the web page coordinators, but also to some tables in the 4chan database.
According to the publication on their blog the way the hacker managed to extract the information from the database is known on 4chan, since there are traces of it in the "details archives registration" of the website. According to the 4chan post, the hacker had access to moderator accounts which he obtained mainly by targeting their credentials.
The founder of 4chan assured website users that their financial data stored in the site's databases was not affected by the attack.
