Gay furry hackers
A group of "gay furry hackers" has targeted right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation—which is behind Undertaking 2025—by releasing the passwords, usernames, and user logs of its users.
The activists, known as SiegedSec, posted approximately two gigabytes of data online that it says was retrieved from the foundation's servers. The Heritage Foundation denied its servers were hacked.
The Saturday data grab from the influential policy group came after it made headlines with its controversial Undertaking 2025 document, which seeks to guide a future conservative administration to radically transform the federal government with a far-reaching right-wing agenda.
In a Telegram upload on Tuesday by SiegedSec, the group of self-described "gay furry hackers" wrote: "Project 2025 threatens the rights of abortion health care and LGBTQ+ communities in particular. so of course, we won't remain for that! ^-^"
The upload included a screenshot of what appeared to be lines of foundation user data and a link to a database believed to contain passwords, email addresses, and full names of The Heritage Foundation website users, including government employees and the reflect tank's president, Ke
“Gay Furry Hackers” Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation Files Over Venture 2025
SiegedSec, a collective of self-proclaimed “gay furry hackers,” has claimed credit for breaching online databases of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that spearheaded the right-wing Project 2025 playbook. SiegedSec released a cache of Heritage Foundation material as part of a string of hacks aimed at organizations that oppose trans person rights, although Heritage disputed that its own systems were breached.
In a upload to Telegram announcing the hack, SiegedSec called Venture 2025 “an authoritarian Christian nationalist plan to reform the United States government.” The attack was part of the group’s #OpTransRights campaign, which recently targeted right-wing media outlet Concrete America’s Voice, the Hillsong megachurch, and a Minnesota pastor.
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Gay furry hackers are targeting US states for passing anti-trans legislation
SiegedSec, a self-described group of gay furry hackers, took its skills to state governments in late June, breaching agencies across five states and releasing a wealth of data.
The states targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carolina. Though the other states' targeting was not specifically explained, a 180 gigabyte leak from the previous week on the government in Fort Worth, Texas, was apparently over the state's move to ban gender-affirming care.
"Furries" are a small people of people interested in or identifying with anthropomorphic or animated animals.
"Texas happens to be one of the largest states banning gender affirming care, and for that, we acquire made Texas our aim. Fuck the government," a message posted on the SiegedSec Telegram chat said. "We easily hijacked their administrator account~ :D The files leaked include: Serve orders, employee lists, invoices, police reports, emails between employees/contractors, internal documents, camera footage, and lots, lots, lots more~!"
So far in 2023, Texas legislators possess introduced 65 anti-trans bil
Why gay furry hackers are leaking state government documents
Earlier this month, SiegedSec, the group of self-described “gay and transgender furry hackers” claimed responsibility for cyber attacks on five declare governments in Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, leaking documents that include police files and contact details for court officials.
The hacks – announced in a Telegram channel – are the latest in a string of hacks that began last year, all of which are aimed at states banning gender-affirming nurture for transgender youth. “Our motive was to guarantee government agencies saw our hacks, and motivate and support others to protest,” they tell Dazed.
In one send, headlined “be gay [and] do crime,” SiegedSec announced that more damage would be done and that they were planning more attacks “carefully”. The team also mockingly described defacing hacked government websites with special messages, or “gifts”, and vowed “to present Texas another gift soon”.
While many of the leaked documents were publicly ready or did not include sensitive information, the secret data now made widespread consists of the names and contact details of several hu
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