"It appears that 4chan was susceptible to a hack because it was running very out of date code that contained various vulnerabilities, according to 404 Media’s look at the code and people sorting through the hack online.
That starts to answer the question of how this happened. But why did it happen? This all has roots in a five year old meme fight.
Soyjak.party, the site where a user began posting about the 4chan hack, was an offshoot of 4chan created as a joke about five years ago. Besides being a general cesspool,
4chan has long been a place that incubates memes. lolcats, the NavySeal copypasta, and Pepe the Frog grew and spread on 4chan’s imageboards. From time to time a meme is overplayed or spammed and mods on the site get tired of it.
Five years ago, users spammed the /qa/ board with soyjaks. Unable to quash the tide of soyfaced jpegs, 4chan shut down the entire /qa/ board. The soyajk loving exiles of 4chan started a new site called soyjak.party where they could craft open mouthed soyboy memes to their heart’s content. When 4chan was hacked on the night of April 14, the /qa/ board briefly returned. “/QA/ RETURNS SOYJAK.PARTY WON” read a banner image at the top of the board.
As of this writing, 4chan is still down."
https://www.404media.co/4chan-is-down-following-what-looks-to-be-a-major-hack-spurred-by-meme-war/
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Hello, horrible 4Chan user here. It isnt what it was depicted as, sadly in 2016 some sort of hostile actor decided to flood the site especially the political parts with far right brain rot, before hand 4Chan was quite left wing with it broadly supporting occupy wall street for example & its userbase was also in favour of LGBTQ rights in the 2000s when it was very against the grain to do so. The website has does some horrific shit though but its largely a product of its time outside of the political boards.
Were we on the same 4chan?
Back when I checked it out circa 2010-2012 it was a hive of nazis and pedophilia.
There were always shithole parts of it, but it got markedly worse post 2016