Sneeder Griffin
Baby Onion
Interesting. I'm not really surprised that it wasn't an SQL injection, since 4chan likely has ways to mitigate such attacks, considering SQL injections are so common that numerous schizos and trolls have likely tried it in the past, with little to no success.View attachment 88757
Saw this posted on the broomstick farms so I stole this image from them.
This is good news for 4chan, as all they need to do to fix this problem is disable PDF uploads on five relatively small boards, a small price to pay to fix a major exploit that puts the whole site at risk. The site will still likely be down for a few days to investigate what was all actually taken from the server and to coordinate with law enforcement, but they shouldn't have to completely rewrite their code for the time being.
The source code leaking could possibly leave them vulnerable to future attacks as more exploits are found in the code, so they will still need to upgrade their systems and code ASAP to close these potential exploits, but it could have been much, much worse.