A reported cyberattack on 4chan revealed moderator identities and backend files, according to Reuters. The site remains offline six days later, with some believing it may be permanently shut down. The ...

4chan is finally back up and running — mostly. The infamous imageboard initially went down two weeks ago, scattering its anonymous denizens to the winds. It has now been largely restored, with users ...

Hackers are taking credit for getting inside the online 4chan message board, which experienced operating issues overnight. The website DownDetector.com showed significant reporting of user complaints ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The notorious internet messageboard 4chan has been hacked, according to posts circulating online, some of which said that a the hacker involved had revealed identifying details ...

Shocking pretty much no one, a new report claims the explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift emerged from the internet’s most infamous cesspool: 4chan. In findings shared with Rolling Stone, the ...

Cole Stryker, author of a new book on 4chan/Anonymous, talks to Ars about the not-so-serious death threats, the pizza deliveries, and the bogus magazine subscriptions directed his way—and why he still ...

The UK’s Online Safety Act has ushered in a new age of internet regulation, recently grabbing headlines for forcing adult sites to verify users’ ages. The laws have also prompted a number of sites not ...

On May 14, 2022, 18-year-old Payton Gendron sent out a link to a select group of online friends. It was an invite to a private Twitch stream, access to his running online diary, and an upload of his ...

Things that nerds call news [dot] Tumblr [dot] com: the anarchic wing of the 4chan message board, known as /b/, is angry at the micro-blogging service Tumblr, which is known for book deals and as the ...