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 rightwing Project 2025 playbook. On Wednesday, as part of string of hacks aimed at organizations that oppose trans rights, SiegedSec released a cache of Heritage Foundation material.
In a post to Telegram announcing the hack, SiegedSec called Project 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 rightwing media outlet Real America’s Voice, the Hillsong megachurch, and a Minnesota pastor.
In his foreword to the Project 2025 manifesto, the Heritage Foundation’s president, Kevin Roberts, rails against “the toxic normalization of transgenderism” and “the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology.” The playbook’s other contributors call on “the next conservative administration” to roll back certain policies, including allowing trans people to serve in the military.
“We’re strongly against Project 2025 and everything the Heritage Foundation stands for,” one of SiegedSec’s leaders, who goes by the handle vio, told The Intercept.
Reportedly 2gb of data
The data includes the “full names, email addresses, passwords, and usernames” of people associating with Heritage, vio said, including users with U.S. government email addresses. “This itself can have an impact to heritage’s (sic) reputation,” they added, “and it’ll especially push away users in positions of power.”
(And thank you gay furry hackers 🫡)
i always knew furries would save us but i thought society would collapse madmax style first
These fuckers are finding out how many queer people are very good with computers.
Fursuits cost money, working with computers (typically) pays well; it’s a tale as old as… the internet?
There’s a reason “furries run the internet” is only kinda a joke
🫡 to the gay furries
I assume they are on Lemmy.
Good job, guys.
Hell yeah! Keep up the good work and dig deeper!
uwu
I checked the article to see if this was the NULLBULGE folks again, but no, this was reportedly executed by SiegedSec. A different queer furry hacker group.
gay furry hacker group? sorry, this is the trans therian greyhat group. though if you’re looking for the queer scaly infosec group they’re right down the hall
The Gay Agenda
- Be gay
- Do crimes
- Brunch
- Be Furry
- Stop Crimes
- Still weird out the normies.
Well it wasn’t going to be the straight furry hackers.
As a straight furry, I find this offensive. Although it is accurate.
there are other kinds of hackers?
Thank god for the Furries.
If there’s a prize for the Best Headline of 2024 out there, this one should win the trophy.
I mean it’s just got everything going for it!
If I ever find these hackers I’m going to treat them to lunch.
They were gay children then professionals and furries. These hackers have been breathing operational security their whole lives. You probably find them when some Morpheus dude in assless chaps offers you two different brands of poppers.
Do the Gay Furry Hackers accept donations?
Whenever I see the words “gay furry hackers” in a headline, I smile.
🫡 Thank you for your service
I read the group name as “Guy Fieri hackers” for some reason. Was confused there for a moment.
I may need more sleep.
