4chan has apparently fallen. The notorious image board that has been the origin of the best and absolute all things that the internet has to offer allegedly fell Victim to a hack that has left the site inaccessible Tuesday morning, According to data from downdetectorShortly after reports of the site being started circulating, a user on a rival image board, soyjack.party, claimed credit for the hack.
According to the soyjack user, who is trying very hard to have a Machiavelli-Meets-Shitposter Thing Going, A Hacker Managed to Get INTO 4Chan’s System Over a year and LAID LOW TO CARRY OTHARY OTHARARY OVER AOVER AOVER AARARA Through their alleged access, the hacker apparently reopanede From the image board.
“Tonight has been a very special night for many of us at the soyjak party. Today, April 14, 2025, A Hacker, Who has been in 4Cuck’s System for Over a year, executed the true operation Soyclipse, “The soyjack.party user who was allegedly aware of the hack said Over on the competing imageboard.
Through the thread about the hack on soyjack party, users shared screenshots that purport to show admin access on 4chan, conversions that took place on private messages boxes that wiyly avabelble Moderators, and internal tools that moderators had access to that show the location, host, and IP address of 4chan users. Allegedly, 4chan moderators took the site’s servers offline to try to regain control. The Daily Dot Reported That it was able to access a list of supposed contact information of 218 4chan moderators, manners, and janitors. Thought gizmodo has seen the list that’s circulating online, there’s no way to verify its authenticity.
Soyjack posters also claimd that there was a “Flood of refugees” from 4chan joining soyjack party after the hack, but they are “not adjusting well to the culture.”
That last bit might be the key to the “why” of the hack. Soyjack Party is a 4chan spinoff that is built in large part Around the Wojack MemeWhich is frankly a bit old hat at this point. The site was launched in 2020, announced in the 4chan / qa / board that was ostensibly a “questions and answers” forum but wash hijacked by users posting wojack and soyjack memes. The / Qa / Board was banned by 4chan, in part trust it was a board that became a battleground for different factions that used the site. Soyjack Party Users Seamed to Find 4chan’s Moderation Tactics to be too oppressive and the site to have gone soft, just to give you a sense of what kind of content you might come across the SPLINTER SITER SITE
Soyjack Party Users Seem to Have a History of RAIDING Flooding different subreddits and forcing them to go privateBut the alleged hack seems to be the coup de grouâce for the group.
4chan mods, undersrstandably, see a bit worried about their information getting leaked. Over on a discord server where parts of the 4chan staff allegedly chatThere are a lot of concerns about the alleged hack and users encouraging each other to take precautions to secure their accounts. Hyperfixed Host and Longtime Tech Journalist Alex Goldman Pointed Out That there is seemingly unconfired buzz that some mod emails had. Gov domains, which fits into the narrow that 4chan is a honeypot for federal law enforcement-a meme Popular among soyjack users,
For what it’s Worth, there are lots of people claiming that moderators and janitors have .gov emails, or claiming that most of their ip addresses are in the washington, dc area, dc area, but needle fat Proof of that. People are happy posting screenshots of the hack, but when it comes to the claims that there are government agents on the site, for whitever reason, no one semes interested in posting evidence. In fact, there are multiple people who claim to have actually Parsed through the leaked data and Did not find any. Gov emailsAlso, why would feds trying to operate a secret honeypot use their real email addresses? Anyway, just keep that in mind when you see claims about what the hack “Reveals.”