End of an Era: 4chan Breached and Potentially Lost Forever
One of the most popular imageboards on the internet, considered to be the first form of a social media, 4chan got hacked 3 days ago (April 14 2025) by hackers from rival imageboard named Soyjack Party. Back in 2017, /qa/ board was added to the 4chan originally intended for questions and answers, but quickly evolved into a anarchy sub full of Soyjakcs . Later, this sub started raiding other subs, posting extreme homophobic and racist content, and messing with people who were posting pepe. They got locked in 2020 for raiding /lgbt/ and it mostly became a forgotten board on 4chan. /qa/ created their own imageboard Soyjack.party(soyjack.st) that took revenge on 4chan in April 2025 and restored /qa/ board before killing the website completely. Soyjacks leaked various data such as staff emails, chats and actually ban reason that are not shown to the users. They also revealed source code that revealed how 4chan fingerprints user browser to avoid ban evasion. This also included who...