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submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net
 

Can't find an article about it but the site does appear to be back online.

edit: okay, there's a know your meme page

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[–] turmoil@hexbear.net 11 points 12 hours ago

too big to fail

[–] William_Nilliam@hexbear.net 27 points 15 hours ago

At this point fedposting saturation has to be 100%, different offices just competing to be the most deranged salivating for the moment some 20 something barely keeping it together comes along so they can justify next years budget

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 45 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Nice I'm signing back up with my work email right now

[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 35 points 17 hours ago

Mission failed. We'll get em next time

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 31 points 17 hours ago

well, that was a pleasant week and some change. ah well

[–] d_cagno@hexbear.net 26 points 17 hours ago
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 28 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Wonder if they bothered to update their code to prevent another attack or if they're just gonna try and ride it out

[–] dead@hexbear.net 34 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

It was determined that 4chan hacked through a PDF file upload. The hacker uploaded a pdf file which contained malicious code, the server opened the file and executed the code.

The joke that I've seen people say about 4chan was "pedophiles hacked by a pdf file". 4chan admins said they have disabled pdf uploads temporarily.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 minutes ago

of course the paedophile website got hacked by a pdf file

[–] sictransitgloria@hexbear.net 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

there's got to be another cve somewhere in that code lmao if they don't update their code this is just waiting to happen again

[–] dead@hexbear.net 17 points 15 hours ago

The hacker leaked the whole website source code. I figure they have at the very least made a new server install and run updates. It's been 10 days since it went down.

Anyone could read the website leaked php to look for new exploits if they are still using the same code base.

[–] Boynomoder@hexbear.net 11 points 15 hours ago

return of the removedslop

[–] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Do you know when it came back online?

[–] dead@hexbear.net 12 points 15 hours ago

1 pm eastern time. Almost 5 hours ago.