4chan is back online, says it’s been ‘starved of money’

4chan is partly back online after a hack took the infamous image-sharing site down for nearly two weeks. The site first went down on April 14, with the person responsible for the hack apparently leaking data including a list of moderators and “janitors” (one janitor told TechCrunch they were “confident” that the leaked data was real). 4chan’s extended disappearance led to at least one premature obituary, with journalist Ryan Broderick writing for Wired that “what began as a hub for internet culture and an anonymous way station for the internet’s anarchic true believers devolved over the years into a fan club for mass shooters, the central node of Gamergate, and the beating heart of far-right fascism around the world.” But the 4chan team responded defiantly in a post on X: “Wired says ‘4chan is dead.’ Is that so?” And on Friday, the site came back online. Shortly afterward, a post on the official 4chan blog in said “a hacker using a UK IP address” was able to gain access to one of 4 ... Read full article.