[transcriptase]

Get real. Companies with infinitely more money, staff, and robust security practices are hacked every day. The only difference is they put out a vague generic corpospeak statement whereas this one admitted it was caused by a skeleton crew on a shoestring budget getting caught out. Given the nature of their user base and how many others would love to see 4chan go down, if things were as bad as you imply then hackers would be taking the site down weekly.

[MichaelZuo]

Source?

I have never heard of a bank’s core mainframes being hacked in the last decade (outside of pen tests), even for mid size banks outside the global top 100.

[transcriptase]

https://www.brightdefense.com/resources/recent-data-breaches...

[MichaelZuo]

These are not the core mainframes… the only parts that actually get what might be called lavish spending on security.

Everything else outside of that… banks obviously have incentives to cut security spending to as low as possible.

[transcriptase]

Nobody is comparing 4chan to bank mainframes except you. I can’t give a source for something I didn’t claim in the first place.

[MichaelZuo]

Are you confused?

The claim was “ Get real. Companies with infinitely more money, staff, and robust security practices are hacked every day. ”

Banking core mainframes are the only thing I know of that gets anwhere near that kind of claim in terms of money, staff, and “robust security practices” 24/7/365.

And even then it’s far from infinite.

[transcriptase]

“Infinitely more” compared to a shoestring budget does not mean infinite unless you want to be annoyingly pedantic.

The fact is I provided a fairly comprehensive list of hacks and breaches, many coming from large public companies that spend more in a year on security than 4chan brings in for ad revenue in a decade.

[sjdrc]

What are you talking about? There are massive breaches of huge companies who should be doing better all the time.

In 2017: > More than 40% of the population of America was potentially impacted by the Equifax data breach.

In 2022: > In September 2022, Optus experienced a major data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of customers

That's just 2 off the top of my head.

[MichaelZuo]

Did you miss the words “bank” and “core mainframes”?

i.e. what they actually might spend millions of dollars per week on securing.

[meinersbur]

Because only a hacked "core mainframe" (definition please) of a bank can excuse the lack of resources at 4chan? Only accepting overly specific evidence is a neat trick to never lose an argument.