Internet Cesspool 4Chan was rejected after alleged hacking, competitor forum users claim credit

4chan obviously fell. According to Downdetector, the infamous image board has been the origin of some of the best and absolutely worst things the internet has to offer, allegedly a victim of hack, a hacker victim who has been unable to access the site since Monday night to Tuesday morning. Soon after reporting the website's collapse, Soyjack.party, a user on the competitor's image board, claimed to have attacked the hack.

According to soy users, he is working on getting the Machiavelli-Meets-Shitposter thing going on, and a hacker managed to get into the system that entered 4Chan more than a year ago and lowered it to carry out the attack. Through alleged access, the hacker apparently reopened /QA/, the committee was shut down for becoming a unique bad brand and exposed the personal information of 4chan employees and leaked the code from the image board.

“Tonight is a very special night for many of us at soy parties. Today, April 14, 2025, a hacker who has been in a 4g disc system for more than a year, performed a real Soyjack operation,” the Soyjack.party user allegedly said of the hacker on the competitive image board.

Through the thread of hacking at the soy party, users shared screenshots that claimed to display Admin access on 4Chan, conversations made on private message boards and conversations available to the host and the host's access to the internal tool, showing the 4Chan user's location, host and IP address. The 4chan host allegedly took the website's server offline in an attempt to re-control the control. Daily Point reported that it has access to a list of assumed contact information for 218 4chan hosts, managers and gatekeepers. Although Gizmodo has seen a list circulating online, it cannot verify its authenticity.

Soybean posters also claimed that after hacking, 4chan joined the Soybean Party’s “refugee flood”, but they were “not very adaptable to culture.”

The last point may be the key to the “reason” of hackers. Soy Party is a 4chan spin-off that is largely built around Wojack Meme, and frankly, it's a bit old hat. The site, launched in 2020, announced on the 4chan/QA/board that the site ostensibly a “question and answer” forum, was hijacked by users posting Wojack and Soyjack Memes. /QA/The board was banned by 4Chan, partly because it became a battlefield for different factions using the site. Soy Party users seem to find 4chan’s moderation strategy too oppressive and the site becomes soft just to give you an idea of ​​what you might encounter on the Splinter site.

Soy Party users appear to have a history of attacking forums related to 4chan, as Reddit users in the 4chan ecosystem noticed Soy Party users flooded different sub-Redit and forced them to privately. But the so-called hackers seem to be the coup of the group.

Understandably, the 4chan mod seems to be a little worried about their information leak. On a discord server, a portion of the 4chan staff members were alleged to chat, with many concerns about the so-called hackers and users encouraging each other to take precautions to ensure their accounts. Over-fixed host and long-term tech journalist Alex Goldman noted that there seems to be some mod emails that have the .gov domain that seem unproven buzz, which fits the narrative that 4chan is a honeypot for federal law enforcement, a meme that is popular among soy users.

As far as its value goes, there are many people claiming that hosts and gatekeepers have .gov emails, or claiming that most of their IP addresses are in Washington, D.C., but there is little evidence. People were happy to post screenshots of hackers, but when it comes to the claims that there were government agents on the scene, no one seemed interested in publishing evidence for whatever reason. In fact, there are a lot of people who claim that they have actually been parsed through the leaked data, but no .gov emails are found. Also, why try to operate a secret honeypot Fed using their real email address? Anyway, keep this in mind when you see claims about what the hacker “reveals what they have”.