4chan 2025 MegaHack

This page is a gem.

	“	This site is like if a Something Awful off-site obsessed with the Awesome Face opened in 2007 and was moderated by a guy named Notax	„
	— a 4chan immigrant's interpretation of the Sharty

The story begins on November 3rd, 2021, when Hiroyuki (Gookmoot) made the decision to close the /qa/ board. That decision set events into motion that few could foresee. It resulted in the birth of the Soyjak Party, a board that the jannies initially dismissed as a one trick pony, for how long could a site last based on one joke (see 8chan if you want an idea)? They had a comfy, tidy gig - /b/ was full of porn, /g/ was full of the same tedious arguments, /pol/ was just collective seething over Twitter screenshots, /r9k/ was one blackpill after another.

Sure, it didn't have the same vitality as before. But that didn't matter - the site was now at retirement age, and things were kept stable thanks to its band of devoted jannies (they did it for free). It didn't need any maintenance - because who knows or cares about PHP in 2025? They were confident that as things had been, so they would always be. 4chan had calcified, and that meant it was basically unbreakable.

On April 14th, 2025, 4chan was BRUTALLY hacked by a soyteen who promptly leaked images of the site's admin board. Emails, jannies' family info, and so on were all released to the public as well. As of April 15, 2025, 4chan is down. And, hey.. maybe this is the end of 4chan. Hopefully it isn't 4chan's last gasp... But, if it is, so long and thanks for all the fish. Jannies somehow rewrote the spaghetti code in 9 days. As is expected, they did that for free too.

How To

Elon Musk called in a favor.

The hax was achieved through an improperly sanitised upload of a PDF. It used an exploit in a hilariously outdated 2012 version of GhostScript that 4chan was using, whereby the hacker gained root. Other revelations include that the Yotsuba codebase is held together with prayers, duck tape and chewing gum, but it is now open source so you too can help fix it! The infrastructure is somehow worse than that of ED's, making it a wonder that this hack hadn't happened sooner. In fact, such lax security is clear evidence that 4chan was a CIA honeypot all along.

The How To For Getting Hacked

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• 1: Don't Update Your Ghost Script

Okay Kiddies, so you want to hack a site and we know that you're all Ace Hackers that have mastered Computer Science 3 but this is for those that haven't or just don't really give a Fuck about 0s and 1s.

This is for you - the lonely, friendless pale skinned Wannabe hacker, forced to spend the hours of 8pm to 6am, all alone and locked up, stewing away in the summer heat or winter's cold, alone with a Lap Top as a friend that is your only source of entertainment and light. Every night, in your 8' by 6' fruit cellar punishment for having a Penis, you sit there, on your uphoseterly foam bed, hating Wimmins and slowly becoming a serial killer because Your Step Mother is convinced that you'll Ræp her fat assed daughters if she let's you sleep upstairs, because she can and Just Because your dad died and there's no one left to defend you.

A ghostscrip is a software used to process PDFs and create thumbnails. Now, if you want an easy site to hack, what you do is find a site that forget, just didn't give a "Fuck" or just plain out ignored to update it for over 10 years.

This is important because the software will have well known vulnerabilities that every 1337 hacker in a Kindergarten classroom can exploit.

All you need to do is go to the internets, do a little research on the software that the site is using and find all the vulnerabilities that you want to exploit.

• 2: In the case of 4chan, your exploit will be to use the fact that they have an improper file verification that fails to recognize if any uploaded file is an actual PDF.

For you, this is the Surprise Sex that you'll have to resort to to have a kid, or sex for the first time. Hopefully, for you, it will be in a state that doesn't allow abortion or you'll have the bad luck of getting yourself a devout, Irish Catholic girl, that has been taught that she will go to Hell if she even Thinks of having the baby sucked out and if you want to stay out of Prison you'll have to live a Loveless marriage where you get your ass kicked by her three older brothers, every other week, because, admit it, you're a rapist.

What you want to do is to exploit this flaw by uploading a malicious PostScript file you disguised as a PDF on one of the boards that permit this file type.

Most likely, this would have to have been their Loli sex board because they pretty much have no moderators there and let the users decide what should stay up or be taken down because 4chan wants to keep the natives happy so that they'll keep donating those sweet, sweet Bitcoins that help cover their server costs and buy them their overpriced weed at their state's Marijuana dispensary.

• 3: This is The Money Shot kiddies. Hopefully, your hack gave you administrative powers through a process that is TL;DR and manifested you into God giving you complete control over the Site's code.

Think of yourself as Neo in The Matrix. You have the power to rewrite the World through a process that is only limited by your imagination.

You can put 25,000 dicks on the splash page Just Because you can.

You can acquire the information of all the site's moderators, put it up on the internets, Doxing them just for Shits and Giggles so that people can find them IRL and send them a pre-paid meatball, extra cheese and green pepper topping pizza, destroying what would have been a decent pizza because no one likes green peppers.

After a week or so, you have to give some time after the first date, the anonymous internet sleuth can follow up by sending a nice bouquet to the moderator that has a lover's message saying that you know who the mod is and you, the slouth, are going to send all the posts that they've made on 4chan to their place of employment. Wait, what are we saying. Mods dont have real Jobs. They're all NEETs. Every post they've made would have to be sent to their Mother just for the shock value.

For the Lulz, you can erase all of the site's Data and put a pretty pic on the main page showing the world that that site has been hacked and, if your Balls are big enough, you can add a signature letting the world know who did the hacking.

Finally, you can go the boring but classic path and take the site completely off of the web so users only get an error message when they try to access it.

The world is yours.

PwneD Forever

Soyjak.party has allegedly taken credit for the cyberattack.[1]

4cope pasta

Hordes of 4chan rapefugees descended upon the boards of soy, and this pasta emerged from the collective unconscious of the sharty:

You are all so fucking retarded. I was waiting for my favourite meetup thread to appear on /soc/, I was so happy to wait and see if there are any meetups next to me. And you know what? YOU HAD TO TAKE DOWN THE SITE!!!! I hope you all kill yourself, stupid retarded faggots. Your mothers should have aborted you long time ago zoomers.
None of you are funny. None of your memes will ever be popular. Nobody outside of your little circle jerk will ever like you. The soyjaks you love so much are ugly, retarded images that aren’t funny. 
This is your moment of glory, taking down a site that you’ll never rival.

There is a darker possibility that this was real, and some poor anon was stifled just as he was about to meet frens IRL and become normal. RIP.

The soyjak video

The Fallout

Party Hard

Despite the fact that 4chan is eternal, many people came out of the woodworks to dance on its grave. Worse, people are trying to manifest 4chan's permanent downfall as if all the "Nazi CHUD" Anons won't just try to invade their spaces in due time. Have fun with that! And you've also got the people who are "worried" that le evil chuds will "infect" discord and other platforms, even though 4chan has been all normies for years.

Wishful thinking from someone who clearly doesn't work in IT

The Last Post of Anon

Since the hack initially took down all the boards BUT /qa/, it was trival to determine the last post made on 4chan before it went down. And that piece of wisdom from anon? Chicken Jockey [2].

If 4chan was gonna go out like that, it should've been "Skibbidy Toilet"

What's Next

So now what? Well, the site can't go back up because now everyone knows what system they're using as well as their keys. So Gookmoot and his crack team of jannies are probably just going to patch holes just enough to last the next 10 years until someone uploads a ZIP file to take it down again. They may also update their copyright notices.

now it'll say ©2003-2025 for the next 10 years

Gallery

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  Cobson has root
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  Finally, a post from hiroyuki!
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  Full janny dox, why not send them a nice email thanking them for their generous voluntary work?
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  The Day of the Mop
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  AGH ME /SOC/!
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  NUKED FROM ORBIT
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  The long foretold coming of Captain Gem
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  Unfortunately /mlp/ survived the fires, it along with the rest of the 'cuck is back

See Also

• Hacking
• Hiroyuki Nishimura
• 4chan
• Soyjak.party
• Chanocalypse Naow
• Trolls Trolling Trolls

External Links

• The KYM Entry
• Great Cuckset
• Kway saving Sharty thread
• A list of jannies and which boards they moderate
• Raw janny dox
• Janny board leak
• Meet the 4chan Jannies
• Source leak mirrors: [3] [4]
• The un-lulzy 4chan official response

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