Gay furry hackers heritage foundation data
A group of "gay furry hackers" has targeted right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation—which is behind Venture 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 Plan 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 share 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 endure 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 ponder tank's president, Ke
Hacktivist group SiegedSec has stolen over 200GB of information from right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation in a large-scalecyber attack.
The self-described “gay-furry-hackers” revealed on Tuesday they had released sensitive data including unreleased blogs and material related to The Daily Signal, a right-wing media site affiliated with Heritage. The statistics was created between 2007 and November 2022.
The community says it gained access to the data on July 2 and released it to provide “transparency to the public regarding who exactly is supporting heritage (sic).”
SiegedSec also claimed to have more than 200 gigabytes of additional “mostly useless” data, which the group said won’t be released. This included passwords and user facts for “every user” on its database.
"This itself can have an impact on heritage's (sic) reputation and it'll especially push away users in positions of power," a spokesperson for the group who goes by the online grasp “vio” told the publication CyberScoop on Tuesday. "We’re strong against Project 2025 and everything the Heritage Foundation stands for,”
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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 facts originally collected by the conservative think tank. Now an executive director at the influential organization is so hopping mad that he might as adequately 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 design 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,
“Gay Furry Hackers” Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation Files Over Proposal 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 gender nonconforming rights, although Heritage disputed that its own systems were breached.
In a announce 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 Authentic America’s Voice, the Hillsong megachurch, and a Minnesota pastor.
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