Following our previous coverage, 4chan has issued a statement on the heels of Verizon Wireless lifting their block (or, as Verizon argues, “protection”) against 4chan.
Verizon Wireless early today argued that the denial of access stemmed from a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the internet site 4chan.org. That’s about the end of where 4chan and Verizon agree.
Verizon argues that this was necessary to protect their network, as users on their network were infected with a computer virus that causes their network to overload with requests to 4chan’s web site. However, system administrators for 4chan confirmed that Verizon made no effort to contact them ahead of this blockade, or make any effort to work with 4chan to mitigate the attack.
