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“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 gender diverse rights, although Heritage disputed that its own systems were breached.

In a share to Telegram announcing the hack, SiegedSec called Undertaking 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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A group of "gay furry hackers" has targeted right-wing ponder tank The Heritage Foundation—which is behind Project 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 numbers grab from the influential policy organization came after it made headlines with its controversial Venture 2025 document, which seeks to mentor a future conservative administration to radically transform the federal government with a far-reaching right-wing agenda.

In a Telegram display on Tuesday by SiegedSec, the organization of self-described "gay furry hackers" wrote: "Project 2025 threatens the rights of abortion health look after and LGBTQ+ communities in particular. so of course, we won't stand for that! ^-^"

The publish 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 complete names of The Heritage Foundation website users, including government employees and the think tank's president, Ke

It looks like hacktivists have united the fight to shine a light on Project 2025, the far-right blueprint for reshaping the government to achieve ultraconservative goals if Donald Trump is elected president in November. 

Google searches for “Project 2025” have skyrocketed in recent weeks, likely due in part to celebrities, including Taraji P. Henson at the Stake Awards last month, drawing attention to the extremist plan. A group of hackers has united the effort to pull advocate the curtain on Project 2025.

On Tuesday, the cybersecurity news outlet CyberScoop reported that a collective comprised of self-described “gay furry hackers" that calls itself SiegedSec gained access to Heritage Foundation data. Specifically, the collective said it gained access to a website hosting contentproduced by members of the Heritage Foundation, the organization that assembled Project 2025 with the help of several members of Trump’s former administration. 

Per CyberScoop:

Self-described “gay furry hackers,” SiegedSec said it released the information in response to Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a set of proposals that aim to offer Donald Trump a set of ready-made policies to implement if he wins this f

“Gay Furry Hackers” Feud With Heritage Foundation Exec

SiegedSec, a collective of self-proclaimed “gay furry hackers” that targeted the conservative Heritage Foundation to demonstrate Project 2025, has posted chat logs between one of its hackers and a Heritage executive, Mike Howell. In a conversation over the messaging app Signal, Howell said the Heritage Foundation was “in the process of recognizing and outting [sic] members of your group” and operational with the FBI.

“Closeted Furries will be presented to the world for the degenerate perverts they are,” Howell told one of SiegedSec’s leaders, who goes by the grasp “vio.” “Your means are miniscule compared to mine. You now can either spin yourself in or you can cooperate.”

Howell, who confirmed the chat logs were accurate to the Daily Dot, is the executive director for the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Plan and a former Trump administration official. SiegedSec also provided screenshots of the discussion to The Intercept.

Howell started the conversation with questions about why SiegedSec targeted the Heritage Foundation. “What is that you are seeking or threatening?” he asked vio.

“We want to create a mess