4Chan goes down, ?temporarily unavailable due to DDoS? [TNW Media]

Pandora?s box of the Internet, 4chan.org is currently down. 4chan is the largest online community in the English-speaking world, essentially an imageboard website where people post and discuss pictures. An announcement on 4Chan?s status page says it went down due to DDoS. ?We now join the ranks of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, et al.?an exclusive club!?

As of posting, downforeveryoneorjustme.com confirms that the site is down. 4chan?s Twitter account confirms the attack.

As reported by Geekosystem, yesterday, Internet vigilante group Anonymous launched a DDoS attack against Bank of America?s website, in retaliation to Bank of America?s refusal to process payments or donations to WikiLeaks. Geekosystem speculates that either the banks of the past month may behind the attack (doubtful) or there may be a war with Tumblr brewing (seriously?).

While the front page is up, the boards and static files are down. On average, 4chan receives over 800,000 posts a day. The site?s founder Christopher ?moot? Poole has been described by The Observer as ?the most influential web entrepreneur you?ve never heard of.? To date, 4Chan, now 7 years old, hosts 642,022,167 posts and has a user base just shy of 60,000.

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Source: http://thenextweb.com/media/2010/12/28/4chan-down-temporarily-unavailable-due-to-ddos/

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