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According to the Washington Post, "the site's users have managed to pull off some of the highest-profile collective actions in the history of the Internet."[1]

Users of 4chan and other websites "raided" Hal Turner by launching DDoS attacks and prank calling his phone-in radio show during December 2006 and January 2007. The attacks caused Turner's website to go offline. This cost thousands of dollars of bandwidth bills according to Turner. In response, Turner sued 4chan, 7chan, and other websites; however, he lost his plea for an injunction and failed to receive letters from the court.[2]

KTTV Fox 11 aired a report on Anonymous, calling them a group of "hackers on steroids", "domestic terrorists", and collectively an "Internet hate machine" on July 26, 2007.[3] Slashdot founder Rob Malda posted a comment made by another Slashdot user, Miang, stating that the story focused mainly on users of "4chan, 7chan and 420chan". Miang claimed that the report "seems to confuse /b/ raids and motivational poster templates with a genuine threat to the American public", arguing that the "unrelated" footage of a van exploding shown in the report was to "equate anonymous posting with domestic terror".[4]

On July 10, 2008, the swastika CJK unicode character () appeared at the top of Google's Hot Trends list—a tally of the most popular search terms in the United States—for several hours. It was later reported that the HTML numeric character reference for the symbol had been posted on /b/, with a request to perform a Google search for the string. A multitude of /b/ visitors followed the order and pushed the symbol to the top of the chart, though Google later removed the result.[5]

Later that year, the private Yahoo! Mail account of Sarah Palin, Republican vice presidential candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election, was hacked by a 4chan user. This followed criticism of Palin and other politicians supposedly using private email accounts for governmental work.[6] The hacker posted the account's password on /b/, and screenshots from within the account to Wikileaks.[7] A /b/ user then logged in and changed the password, posting a screenshot of his sending an email to a friend of Palin's informing her of the new password on the /b/ thread. However, he forgot to blank out the password in the screenshot.[8] A multitude of /b/ users attempted to log in with the new password, and the account was automatically locked out by Yahoo!. The incident was criticized by some /b/ users, in that most reports on the hack focused on 4chan, rather than Palin's violation of campaign law. One user commented, "seriously, /b/. We could have changed history and failed, epically."[9] The FBI and Secret Service began investigating the incident shortly after its occurrence. On September 20 it was revealed they were questioning David Kernell, the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell.[10]

The stock price of Apple Inc. fell significantly in October 2008 after a hoax story was submitted to CNN's user-generated news site iReport.com claiming that company CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a major heart attack. The source of the story was traced back to 4chan.[11][12]

In May 2009, members of the site attacked YouTube, posting pornographic videos on the site.[13] A 4chan member acknowledged being part of the attack, telling the BBC that it was in response to YouTube "deleting music".[14] In January 2010, members of the site attacked YouTube again in response to the suspension of YouTube user lukeywes1234 for failing to meet the minimum age requirement of thirteen.[15] The videos uploaded by the user had apparently become popular with 4chan members, who subsequently became angered after the account was suspended and called for a new wave of pornographic videos to be uploaded to YouTube on January 6, 2010.[15] Later the same year, 4chan made numerous disruptive pranks directed at singer Justin Bieber.[16]

In September 2010, in retaliation against the Bollywood film industry's hiring of Aiplex Software to launch cyberattacks against The Pirate Bay, Anonymous members, recruited through posts on 4chan boards, subsequently initiated their own attacks, dubbed Operation Payback, targeting the website of the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America.[17][18][19] The targeted websites usually went offline for a short period of time due to the attacks, before recovering.

The website of the UK law firm ACS:Law, which was associated with an anti-piracy client, was affected by the cyber-attack.[20] In retaliation for the initial attacks being called only a minor nuisance, Anonymous launched more attacks, bringing the site down yet again. After coming back up, the front page accidentally revealed a backup file of the entire website, which contained over 300 megabytes of private company emails, which were leaked to several torrents and across several sites on the Internet.[21] It has been suggested that the data leak could cost the law firm up to £500,000 in fines for breaching British Data Protection Laws.[22] In January 2011, BBC News reported that the law firm have announced they are to stop "chasing illegal file-sharers". Head of ACS:Law Andrew Crossley in a statement to a court addressed issues which influenced the decision to back down "I have ceased my work ... I have been subject to criminal attack. My e-mails have been hacked. I have had death threats and bomb threats."[20]

In August 2012, 4chan users attacked a third-party sponsored Mountain Dew campaign, Dub the Dew, where users were asked to submit and vote on name ideas for a green apple flavor of the drink. Users submitted entries such as "Diabeetus", "Fapple", several variations of "Gushing Granny", and "Hitler did nothing wrong".[23][24]

  1. Cha, Ariana Eunjung (2010년 8월 10일). “4chan users seize Internet's power for mass disruptions”. 《Washington Post》. 2010년 8월 10일에 확인함. 
  2. “Harold C. "Hal" Turner v. 4chan.org”. Justia Federal District Court Filings. 2007년 1월 19일. 2008년 7월 14일에 확인함. 
  3. “FOX 11 Investigates: 'Anonymous'. 《MyFOX Los Angeles》. KTTV (Fox Broadcasting Company). 2007년 7월 26일. 2008년 5월 22일에 원본 문서에서 보존된 문서. 2007년 8월 11일에 확인함. 
  4. "Miang", CmdrTaco (ed.) (2007년 7월 28일). “AC = Domestic Terrorists?”. Slashdot. 2008년 7월 24일에 확인함. 
  5. David Sarno (2008년 7월 12일). “Rise and fall of the Googled swastika”. 《The Los Angeles Times》. 2008년 7월 15일에 보존된 문서. 2008년 7월 14일에 확인함. 
  6. Ted Bridis (2008년 9월 17일). “Hackers claim break-in to Palin's e-mail account”. Associated Press. 2008년 9월 17일에 확인함. 
  7. Tom Phillips (2008년 9월 17일). “Sarah Palin's email gets hacked”. 《Metro》. 2008년 9월 20일에 보존된 문서. 2008년 9월 17일에 확인함. 
  8. M. J. Stephey (2008년 9월 17일). “Sarah Palin's E-mail Hacked”. 《TIME》. 2008년 9월 19일에 보존된 문서. 2008년 9월 17일에 확인함. 
  9. David Sarno (2008년 9월 17일). “4Chan's half-hack of Palin's email goes awry”. 《The Los Angeles Times》. 2009년 2월 7일에 원본 문서에서 보존된 문서. 2008년 9월 17일에 확인함. 
  10. Steve Bosak (2008년 9월 20일). “Suspect Nabbed in Palin E-mail Hack”. NewsFactor. 2009년 5월 4일에 보존된 문서. 2008년 9월 21일에 확인함. 
  11. Sandoval, Greg (2008년 10월 4일). “Who's to blame for spreading phony Jobs story?”. 《CNet News. 2009년 1월 11일에 확인함. 
  12. Cheng, Jacqui (2008년 10월 3일). “Friday Apple links: Steve Jobs still not dead edition”. 《Ars Technica》. 2008년 12월 9일에 보존된 문서. 2009년 1월 11일에 확인함. 
  13. Fitzsimmons, Caitlin (2009년 5월 22일). “YouTube besieged by porn videos”. 《The Guardian》 (London). 2009년 5월 27일에 보존된 문서. 2009년 6월 13일에 확인함. 
  14. Courtney, Siobhan (2009년 5월 21일). “Pornographic videos flood YouTube”. 《BBC News》 (BBC). 2009년 5월 30일에 보존된 문서. 2009년 6월 13일에 확인함. 
  15. Bunz, Mercedes (2010년 1월 6일). “YouTube faces 4chan porn attack”. 《The Guardian》 (London). 2010년 1월 10일에 보존된 문서. 2010년 1월 13일에 확인함. 
  16. Emery, Daniel (2010년 7월 5일). “Prank leaves Justin Bieber facing tour of North Korea”. BBC. 2010년 7월 17일에 보존된 문서. 2010년 7월 20일에 확인함.  ; “Record label brands Justin Bieber tour vote "a hoax". BBC. 2010년 7월 7일. 2010년 7월 17일에 보존된 문서. 2010년 7월 20일에 확인함. 
  17. Singh, Divyesh. Bollywood hiring cyber hitmen to combat piracy, Daily News & Analysis, September 5, 2010.
  18. Saetang, David (2010년 9월 20일). “RIAA, MPAA Websites Pummeled By 4chan's Wrath”. PCWorld. 2011년 10월 29일에 확인함. 
  19. “4chan Attack Brings Down MPAA Website”. Gawker.com. 2010년 9월 18일. 2011년 10월 29일에 확인함. 
  20. Jane Wakefield (2011년 1월 25일). “Law firm stops chasing pirates”. BBC News. 2011년 1월 25일에 보존된 문서. 2011년 1월 25일에 확인함. 
  21. enigmax (2010년 9월 25일). “ACS:Law Anti-Piracy Law Firm Torn Apart By Leaked Emails”. TorrentFreak. 2010년 9월 26일에 보존된 문서. 2010년 9월 25일에 확인함. 
  22. Chris Williams (2010년 9월 28일). “ACS:Law's mocking of 4chan could cost it £500k”. The Register. 2011년 1월 25일에 확인함. 
  23. “Web pranksters hijack restaurant's Mountain Dew naming contest”. 《Time》. 2012년 8월 12일. 2014년 12월 1일에 확인함. 
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