4chan taken down in retaliation attack for Visa, Mastercard hacks - Polidicks

[quote=BBC] The notorious message board 4Chan has been taken offline by an overwhelming web attack. Thanks to the attack, the discussion boards of the site have been hard to reach or offline for almost 24 hours. The attack might be retaliation for similar attacks that some 4Chan members, as part of the Anonymous group, mounted in support of Wikileaks. It is not yet clear who is carrying out the attacks and no-one has come forward to claim responsibility. News about the large-scale web attack, known as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, came to light via a message posted on Twitter by Moot, the founder of 4Chan. He wrote: "Site is down due to DDoS. We now join the ranks of Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, et al - an exclusive club!" A DDoS attack involves bombarding a server behind a website with data in an attempt to knock it offline. Many members of 4Chan work together in the guise of a group called Anonymous to carry out attacks on websites they deem to be enemies of freedom of speech. Most recently, Anonymous members took action in support of whistle-blowing site Wikileaks. Anonymous used a DDoS tool to hit the corporate websites of Mastercard, Visa and Paypal because the firms had cut off payment connections to Wikileaks. Paul Mutton, a security analyst at site watching firm Netcraft, said the attack on 4Chan was ongoing. "For most of the past 24 hours, the site has either been very slow to respond or has been completely unreachable," he said. Statistics gathered by Netcraft show 4Chan was hit hard early on Wednesday but that it recovered towards the afternoon. A blog showing the status of the various elements of 4Chan suggests the image boards, the most heavily used part of the site, have been down for hours. Early reports suggested that a hacktivist known as the Jester was behind the attack. Before now, some members of Anonymous said they would target the Jester with DDoS attacks after he declared an ambition to knock Wikileaks offline. However, in a Twitter message, the Jester denied any involvement in the attack.[/quote] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12090245[/url] Ahaha, oh sweet irony.

Noooooo, /r9k/ and /v/!

oh no we better find someone that gives a crap!

lets hope 4chan won't find out who did this or the poor guy will be annihilated by them

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the US government.

this is a good thing i guess

But 4Chan didn't do it, Anonymous did.

We can get on 4chan just fine. /b/ is just changed to the windows 3.0 hotdog stand theme.

Seems to be back up

It's easier to read like this.

[QUOTE=Wii60;27053827]But 4Chan didn't do it, Anonymous did.[/QUOTE] What are you talking about It was EbaumsWorld

Anonymous is not as invulnerable as it likes to think.

It's not irony god damn it!

The fact that Anon will for sure try to rehack it is sad. People shouldn't care so much over some shitty image site full of perverse little btards

It's not even a reasonable counter-attack though. Not being able to post on a message board, that's irritating. Not being able to send or receive funds, order items online, or check your bank balance is a really big fucking deal. Edit: Jesus Christ we just got 15 posts at the exact same time.

31chan :smug: .

The only thing I'd be sad about is the Vidya or Advice boards. I still find it funny that 4chan's advice is more serious than Facepunch's half of the time.

i hate people outside of 4chan talking about 4chan, they get 4chan so wrong its not funny

You know it's serious when the BBC do a report instead of Fox.

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I didn't have any trouble at all loading up 4chan and going to any of the messageboards...? This no longer happening then?

[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;27053845]It's not irony god damn it![/QUOTE] The hunter becomes the hunted applies to this situation, which is in fact, ironic.

well, fuck em no tears shed here

The site is back up again, the random board however is fucked beyond recognition.

[QUOTE=NeuFeX;27053975]The hunter becomes the hunted applies to this situation, which is in fact, ironic.[/QUOTE] No, a few dicks DDoS'd some credit card companies then some other dicks DDoS'd an image board barlely related to the original dicks. It's not fucking irony.

[QUOTE=Levithan;27053813]oh no we better find someone that gives a crap![/QUOTE] Nobody appreciates the function of a sewer, until it stops working.

I can access 4chan just fine.

[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;27053845]It's not irony god damn it![/QUOTE] It's kinda ironic, I gotta admit.

I wouldn't be surprised if this DDoS is being done by 4channers who disagreed with what everyone else did "for" Wikileaks. The community definitely had a divide over that.

[QUOTE=kitteh-nator;27054015]The site is back up again, the random board however is fucked beyond recognition.[/QUOTE] Moot did that because people kept complaining about OLEV and Moot thought it would be funny...