About April 2025 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak refers to the Soyjak.party community's claimed hacking of 4chan in mid April 2025, which included the restoration of the deleted /QA/ board and leaking the emails of 4chan "janitors," who are members of the site's moderation team. The attackers reportedly exploited outdated PHP code and deprecated MySQL functions in 4chan's backend, particularly in a core script named yotsuba.php, which manages post submissions and moderation. A Soyjak.Party users also shared a list of emails they claimed are associated with janitor and moderator accounts, including three .edu emails. Although some internet users claimed that the leaks included .gov emails associated with members of the moderation team, this remains unverified. Origin 4chan was reportedly hacked by internet users claiming to be part of the Soyjak.Party community on April 14th, 2025. The hackers brought back the deleted /QA/ board, and temporarily granted access to 4chan's administrative site. An anonymous user posted about the hack on Soyjak.Party around 10:05 PM EST. The thread contained several bits of leaked information, a look into the /j/ board as well as the entirety of the "yotsuba.php" code, which handles features like posting and reporting. Another post in the thread claimed to be leaking the email addresses associated with various janitors, three of which were .edu emails. Early on April 15th, 2025, KiwiFarms user Coberald posted a copy of the leaked 4chan source code. A user named Tofflenheim also shared a link to an archive of posts on /j/, a private board dedicated to janitor discussions. Spread X user @Priniz_twt was one of the first to post about the hack on April 14th, 2025, gathering over 5,000 likes in less than a day. On April 14th and April 15th, 2025, X user @_yushe posted screenshots from the 4chan administrative page as well as analyzed the leaked "yotsuba.php" code, which handles features like posting and reporting. The post gathered o...
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