A group of hackers calling themselves 'gay furries' claims to have attacked a conservative think tank, but the think tank denies the allegations.



SiegedSec, a group of hackers calling themselves 'gay furry

hackers ,' hacked the Heritage Foundation , a conservative think tank in the United States, and released classified data. The Heritage Foundation, in response, claims that the hacking was a lie by SiegedSec, who wanted to attract public attention, and denies that it was hacked at all.

'Gay furry hackers' attack Heritage Foundation and release sensitive data related to Project 2025 | TechRadar
https://www.techradar.com/pro/gay-furry-hackers-attack-heritage-foundation-and-release-sensitive-data-related-to-project-2025



Heritage Foundation insists 'gay furry hackers' did not breach its systems - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/11/24196554/siegedsec-heritage-foundation-project-2025-hack-gay-furry

SiegedSec is a hacker group that calls itself 'gay and kemoner hackers,' and in June 2024, they hacked the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), one of the largest nuclear research laboratories in the United States. At that time, they demanded that 'INL research the creation of 'cat girls'' in exchange for making confidential employee data stolen from INL private.

What is the shocking demand made by a self-proclaimed 'gay and furry hacker' who hacked into a nuclear research institute? - GIGAZINE



In July, SiegedSec stole and released 2GB worth of internal data from the Heritage Foundation, based in Washington, DC. The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank that has a major influence on the US government by proposing conservative policies based on principles such as small government, traditional American values, and strengthening national defense.

SiegedSec has positioned this hack as part of the 'OpTransRights' campaign, which attacks far-right media and state government agencies with anti-abortion and anti-transgender affiliations. It also claims that one of the motives was retaliation for the Heritage Foundation's ' Project 2025 ,' a list of policy proposals released in preparation for Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election.

The internal data released by the Heritage Foundation includes information related to The Daily Signal , a right-wing media outlet with ties to the Foundation. SiegedSec claims that the data includes the full names, email addresses, passwords, and usernames of people who have interacted with the Heritage Foundation, bringing transparency to the organization.



In response, Heritage Foundation spokesman Noah Weinrich denied that the foundation was hacked by SiegedSec, calling the allegations 'false narratives and allegations made by attention-seeking criminal trolls.'

Weinrich said a group had discovered an archive containing the same data that was released this time that was available on the web, but that SiegedSec had simply republished the data and that no systems at the Heritage Foundation had been compromised.

Meanwhile, Mike Howell, executive director of the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project, posted on X that he had disbanded a 'gay furry hacker group.'



SiegedSec also released chat logs with Howell, in which Howell asks 'why did you hack the Heritage Foundation?' and threatens to identify and expose the hacker. Howell confirmed the accuracy of the exchange in response to an inquiry from the web media Daily Dot .

SiegedSec then reported in a Telegram post that it had decided to disband. A person who calls himself 'vio,' the leader of SiegedSec, told foreign media outlet The Verge that he expected the Heritage Foundation to deny the hacking, and pointed out that many companies and organizations try to deny the hacking itself to save face. However, he claimed that the Heritage Foundation was actually hacked, and that Howell's words and actions in trying to disband SiegedSec prove this.

In addition, SiegedSec claims to be hacking with left-wing political views, but since it appeared a few days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine and is targeting NATO countries, it has been pointed out that it may actually be a pro-Russian hacker group.

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