Gay Furry Hackers Return, Leak Info From Conservative Think Tank
Image: Source: SiegedSec
Self-proclaimed have returned with seven major leaks in seven days this week, culminating in a major hack on the US-based conservative think tank Heritage Foundation where 200GB+ of data was leaked.听
Throughout the week, the group has hacked NATO, a number of Israeli technology companies and Amplify AI. The Heritage Foundation has prominent political influence in the US, and was targeted in particular for spearheading Project 2025, an ultra-conservative Christian nationalist plan that even Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from, despite his .听
Sharing the leaked data, SiegedSec said: 鈥淧roject 2025 threatens the rights of abortion healthcare and 17c起草社区+ communities in particular. So of course, we won’t stand for that!鈥�
鈥淚 wonder what would happen if we leaked the passwords, email addresses, and full names of every user, every US government employee, even the Heritage president Kevin Roberts,鈥� they continued, before linking to the said leak.听
Analyses of the leaked data by Jackie Singh reveal a number of strange tidbits for the Heritage Foundation, including a high number of Chinese IP addresses in the data 鈥� extra strange, considering one of Project 2025鈥檚 goals is 鈥渢aking on China.鈥�
SiegedSec also leaked chat logs with Mike Howell, executive director of the Foundation鈥檚 Oversight Project, who got in contact with the group following the leak.
vio, one of the group鈥檚 members, said to Howell: 鈥淲e want to make a message and shine light on who exactly supports the heritage foundation. We don鈥檛 want anything more than that, not money and not fame. We’re strongly against Project 2025 and everything the Heritage Foundation stands for.鈥�
Howell dropped any sense of professionalism pretty quickly, directing flagrant homophobia at them in the leaked logs while claiming that he had gotten the FBI involved.听
The future of SiegedSec
SiegedSec鈥檚 week of hacktivism has drawn more eyes on them than ever before, which resulted in the 鈥� suggested as an attempt to bury the Heritage Foundation leak, according to vio.
As a result, SiegedSec announced their sudden disbandment earlier today (July 11) on their Telegram: 鈥淲e planned to disband later today or tomorrow, but given the circumstances I believe it鈥檚 best we do so now. For our own mental health, the stress of mass publicity, and to avoid the eye of the FBI.鈥澛�
They said that they鈥檝e now shared the rest of their public leaks, and have given a few others to journalists. However, they did say in their signoff: 鈥淲e may not be a cybercriminal group anymore, but we will always be hackers and always be fighting for the rights of others.鈥�
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