But 2ch is a shit. Who cares about their business deals with some epic 4chan clone. And it might just be, you know, trolling.
Also
http://echo-news.net/en/japans-biggest-site-2channel-cyber-attacked-by-hiroyuki
>But credibility of this story line is strongly supported by the 2ch.netfs mass data leakage in 2013. At that time, 40000 personfs private data and comment logs spilled out with their private data; full name, address, phone number, e-mail address credit card number with security code.
>And after more than 1 month, it was made clear that 2ch has been selling data since 2000, just next year it had started.