Gay furry hackers disband
Heritage Foundation Exec Threatens ‘Gay Furry Hackers’ in Unhinged Texts
Self-described “gay furry hackers” on July 2 breached archival data from a site that was operated by the Heritage Foundation until recently, and on Tuesday released two gigabytes of internal statistics originally collected by the conservative think tank. Now an executive director at the influential organization is so hopping mad that he might as good invest in a kangaroo costume.
The hacktivist collective, SiegedSec, has been engaged in a campaign called “OpTransRights,” in which it targets government websites with the aim of disrupting efforts to enact or enforce anti-trans and anti-abortion laws. Heritage Foundation was selected due to its Project 2025 plans, seen as a plan for Donald Trump to reshape the U.S. with sweeping far-right reforms should he win another designation as president, SiegedSec told CyberScoop on Tuesday. Collective member “vio” informed the outlet that they aimed to provide “transparency to the public regarding who exactly is supporting” Heritage, and that the leaked data included “full names, email addresses, passwords,
This, it should come as no surprise, is probably not true. As The New Republicpreviously reported, Trump’s campaign, in coordination with the Republican National Committee, installed former Trump appointee Russ Vought as the RNC platform committee’s policy chair and Trump stooge Ed Martin as RNC deputy policy director. Both sit on the advisory board of Project 2025—and Vought even authored an entire chapter of the plan. A CNN study released Thursday found at least 140 people who worked in Trump’s administration involved in Project 2025—spanning across every level of his administration. According to CNN, six of Trump’s former cabinet secretaries collaborated on the 900-page master plan, with roughly 20 pages credited to Trump’s first deputy chief of staff.
Project 2025 is a pathway for executing Trump’s extreme policies The conservative think tank behind the project claims it’s handmade for any Republican president, but it’s not a matter of divine coincidence that Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee who, if he wins in November, will be inaugurated in 2025, the year for which the initiative is named. The thorn of Project 2025 dogging Trump seems to be its extreme posi
After claiming to break into a database belonging to The Heritage Foundation, and then leaking 2GB of files belonging to the ultra-conservative think tank, the hacktivist crew SiegedSec says it has disbanded.
According to a message on the miscreants' Telegram channel, they had already planned to exit the scene this week. That missive continues:
And while disavowing a animation of crime, SiegedSec will remain "hackers and always fighting for the rights of others."
But before breaking up the band, the politically motivated and self-described "gay furry hackers" published a bunch of furious messages that SiegedSec claims were sent to them by Mike Howell, the executive director of the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project.
The feud began on July 9 after SiegedSec said it obtained usernames, passwords, logs and "other juicy info" belonging to the Heritage Foundation, and then leaked that private information online in response to the org producing and promoting Project 2025. The information dump has now been taken offline.
Project 2025 is a lengthy and fairly detailed blueprint that outlines how a future conservative president – such as, say, Donald Trump should he win the election again
Hacktivists involved in Project 25 think tank breach disband
Threat group SiegedSec, which earlier this week took responsibility for hacking a reflect tank closely associated with the Republican Party, has announced that it is disbanding following a mass of publicity that has brought it to the attention of the FBI.
The self-proclaimed ‘gay furry’ hackers claimed to have infiltrated The Heritage Foundation – a US conservative consider tank responsible for formulating the Republican Party’s so-called ‘policy wish list’, Venture 25.
Chronologising the hack via Telegram and a stream of tech media interviews, the politically motivated hacker collective said that it had infiltrated the Washington DC-based think tank to oppose Project 25’s stance on transgender rights and had subsequently leaked two gigabytes of the foundation’s data.
The data is reflection to have contained 72k unique email addresses, primarily used for commenting on articles (along with usernames, IP addresses, comments and stored passwords).
Additionally, the hacking group threatened to leak passwords, email addresses, and full names of every user, including US government employees and the Heritage president, Kev
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