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Heritage Foundation Gay Furry Hack and leak.

Heritage Foundation Gay Furry Hack

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Updated Jul 11, 2024 at 04:42PM EDT by sakshi.

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Overview

Heritage Foundation Gay Furry Hack refers to a hacktivist group's leak of internal data from the conservative United States think tank the Heritage Foundation in mid-July 2024. A self-professed group of "Gay Furry Hackers" took credit for the leak on their Telegram channel, where they notably call themselves "SiegedSec." The group has taken credit for a series of hacks and leaks targeting conservative American groups in 2024.

Background

On July 9th, 2024, SeigedSec, a self-described gay furry hacktivist group, posted about hacking and leaking internal data from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative American think tank based in Washington, D.C., to their Telegram[1] channel called "SiegedSecurity" (seen below). The think tank is best known for its work on the controversial Project 2025 campaign.

Images from the data dump were reposted to X[2] by user @ZachTheW0lf on July 9th, gathering over 48,000 likes in two days.


UWU SiegedSec final hack~ StagedSed https://t.me/SiegedSecurity email: youranomwolf@riseup.net over the past 7 days, we have released a hack every day, from NATO to Israel, we attacked many. we have one more gift for you all, its one minute till midnight so i'll start the show we hacked The Heritage Foundation :3 (holy moly!!!) The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank in America, among the most influential public policy organizations. this organization is responsible for leading Project 2025, an authoritarian Christian nationalist plan to reform the United States government. Project 2025 threatens the rights of abortion healthcare and LGBTQ communities in particular, so of course, we won't stand for that! we have gained access to The Heritage Foundation's database, with user data, logs, and other juicy info :D we also accessed 200GB+ of other, mostly useless, files in their server. these useless files wont be leaked. new new i wonder what would happen if we leaked the passwords, email addresses, and full names of every user :3 every US government employee, even the Heritage president Kevin Roberts. be gay do crine- thank you to verty for greatly helping with this hack! dear heritage foundation, get in touch with us! we will make fun of you endlessly : Love, siegodsoc <3 a0pTransRights thank you everyone who has supported us. we have an important announcement coming soon. The P Heritage Foundation over the past 7 days, we have released a hack every day, from NATO to Israel, we attacked many. we have one more gift for you all, its one minute till midnight so i'll start the show~ we hacked The Heritage Foundation :3 (holy moly!!!) The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank in America, among the most influential public policy organizations. this organization is responsible for leading Project 2025, an authoritarian Christian nationalist plan to reform the United States government. Project 2025 threatens the rights of abortion healthcare and LGBTQ+ communities in particular. so of course, we won't stand for that! ^_^ we have gained access to The Heritage Foundation's database, with user data, logs, and other juicy info :D we also accessed 200GB+ of other, mostly useless, files in their server. these useless files wont be leaked. A 3 mew mew i wonder what would happen if we leaked the passwords, email addresses, and full names of every user :3 every US government employee, even the Heritage president Kevin Roberts. be gay do crime~ LEAK: https://mega.nz/file/ cD8mHRjD#YGxykiDiQMdvMz1 SneiwPL6zTDBhs8rTxtUwQ9IEujM thank you to verty for greatly helping with this hack! dear heritage foundation, get in touch with us! we will make fun of you endlessly :3 youranonwolf@riseup.net signal: cybercrimecat.69 love, gay furry hackers <3 #OpTransRights thank you everyone who has supported us. we have an important announcement coming soon. 8.7K 10:00 °

Developments

On July 10th, 2024 SeigedSec posted a Signal chat log[3] between the Heritage Foundation's Mike Howell and the group behind the hack. The chats show the hacker and Howell exchanging words, with Howell threatening to expose the furry's real identities and calling them "degenerate perverts" (shown below).


these chat logs are released by SiegedSec, this chat took place on signal. youranonwolf@riseup.net Mike Howell: This is Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundations Oversight Project I'd like to chat Would you be willing to have a call or some other means of communication vio: hello! unfortunately im not able to call, i can only stick to text communication. if you have another platform youd prefer, i'm open to adapting how i can. Mike Howell: This platform is fine What is that you are seeking or threatening? vio: we want to make a message and shine light on who exactly supports the heritage foundation. we dont want anything more than that, not money and not fame. we're strongly against Project 2025 and everything the heritage foundation stands for. Mike Howell: That's why you hacked us? Just for that? vio: yes. it should be obvious thats all we want based on our history as a hacktivist group, we dont seek money. Mike Howell: Ok listen to me closely We are in the process of identifying and outting members of your group Reputations and lives will be destroyed Closeted Furries will be presented to the world for the degenerate perverts they are vio: i would like to be left alone without my rights being threatened. Mike Howell: Are you aware that you won't be able to wear a furry tiger costume when you're getting pounded in the ass in the federal prison I put you in next year? vio: such unprofessional language from an executive director, would you mind if i shared this? :3 Mike Howell: Please share widely. I hope the word spreads as fast as the STDs do in your degenerate furry community. vio: meow :3 (image of cat :3) Mike Howell: B--------- is a weird sin. It shows you've gone a "few clicks" too far in trying to satiate your deviant appetite. vio: whats ur opinion on vore Mike Howell: My advice is that you get out of mommy's basement, iron your shirt, buy a girl a drink, and ask her out instead of googling new deviances for you to fixate on vio: brb im writing a post about you. would you like me to immediately post your dox publicly or tease it for a little while first? :D Mike Howell: whatever you prefer, i'm tied up with the fbi issuing a 2702 order on your social media. you arent that sneaky for your line of work (screenshot of our bitcoin wallet's transactions) vio: omg you learned how to look up the public history of my bitcoin address!!! good job pal im proud of you :D

The validity of these chats was later confirmed by journalist Mikael Thalen[4] in a public correspondence with Mike Howell on July 10th (seen below).


Mikael Thalen @MikaelThalen - 19h Thanks for the reply, Mike. Sieged Sec just published an alleged chatlog between you and a member known as 'vio. Just looking to see if you can confirm the authenticity? Thanks! 1 8 754 271 @MHowellTweets ⚫ 19h Mike Howell Yah send me a link and I'll confirm if correct Q1 27 lil 624 ☐ 1 Mikael Thalen @MikaelThalen. 19h Thanks. This is the link that was publicly posted to the group's Telegram channel. files.catbox.moe/iOtkbp.txt 1 271 Mike Howell @MHowellTweets Yah that's me. For sure. 3:02 PM ⚫ Jul 10, 2024 835 Views 5 Ill 617

Also on July 10th, 2024, X[5] user @HackingButLegal posted a thread analyzing some of the data leaked by SeigedSec, concluding that several comments on the Heritage Foundation's website originated from Asian countries (seen below).


Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal • 22h Dataset was a little dirty and a hassle to clean up. Here are the 60K extracted IPs from the WP Comments table: defuse.ca/b/ PTrmvlbs #HeritageFoundation ge grep -oE '\b([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1 5] 12[0-4][0-9] | [01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3} 0-9]?)$/!d' > output.txt 6 1785 1.1K III 216K Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal Subscribe Sample geolocations from the first 100 IPs (these are sorted 'low to high', and many Asia-based netblocks start with the number 1) Checking... #: 26/100 74 to go IP Address Reverse DNS Country Region • City Zip Code Timezone ISP 1-172-10-38.dynamic- Penghu | Penghu 1.172.10.38 Taiwan Asia/Taipei Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. ip.hinet.net County County 1-172-15-59.dynamic- Penghu 1.172.15.59 Taiwan ip.hinet.net County | Penghu County Asia/Taipei Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. 1.186.48.26 1.186.48.26 India Karnataka 1.207.26.87 1.207.26.87 China Guizhou 1.23.84.39 1.23.84.39 India West Bengal Kolkata Bengaluru 560056 Asia/Kolkata Guiyang 550000 Asia/Shanghai 700014 Asia/Kolkata DVOIS Chinanet Tikona Infinet Ltd. South 1.234.27.239 1.234.27.239 Seoul Seocho-gu 066 Asia/Seoul SK Broadband Co Ltd Korea 1.24.119.19 1.24.119.19 China Fujian Zhangzhou Asia/Shanghai China Unicom Neimeng Province Network South 1.251.19.135 1.251.19.135 Daegu Seo-gu 418 Asia/Seoul SK Broadband Co Ltd Korea 1.26.102.189 1.26.102.189 China Fujian Zhangzhou Asia/Shanghai China Unicom Neimeng Province Network 1.53.161.195 1.53.161.195 Vietnam Ho Chi Minh | Quan Binh Thanh 1.55.89.216 1.55.89.216 Vietnam Hanoi Hanoi 1.55.95.220 1.55.95.220 Vietnam Hanoi Hanoi 1.59.151.107 1.59.151.107 China Heilongjiang Harbin 1.61.122.87 1.61.122.87 China Heilongjiang Harbin 150000 Asia/Shanghai 1.62.83.6 1.62.83.6 China Heilongjiang Harbin 150000 Asia/Shanghai Asia/Ho Chi Minh FPT Telecom Company Asia/Bangkok Asia/Bangkok 150000 Asia/Shanghai FPT Telecom Company China Unicom Heilongjiang Province Network China Unicom Heilongjiang Province Network China Unicom Heilongjiang Province Network FPT Telecom Company 1-64-176- 1.64.176.95 Hong Kong Eastern 095.static.netvigator.com Heng Fa Chuen Asia/Hong_Kong PCCW IMS Limited 1-64-55- 1.64.55.226 Hong Kong Eastern 226.static.netvigator.com Metropole Building 96521 Asia/Hong_Kong PCCW IMS Limited 12:03 PM ⚫ Jul 10, 2024 250K Views Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal Here's an example of the fun we can have here: Subscribe Match suspicious comments to suspicious IP addresses. Here we have "Clint" who asks, "I am not sure who told you that 'Space-based interceptors present the best option for a boost-phase missile defense.' Can you point me to a technical study? This Air Force (ex-AF) officer says the opposite is true: that space based missile defense is not feasible [links] So I am confused it seems space based missile defense is not the most sensible thing to do. If you have any other information to share on this issue that would be good. Thanks." "Clint" made this particular comment from an IP address originating from Kathmandu, Nepal. e_i@yahoo.com', whois: status: ALLOCATED II '110. ' whois.apnic.net 2008-11 IANA sure who told you that & changed: missile defense.&quot; Force (ex-AF) officer say ible: \n <a href="http: .thespacereview.com/artic href="http://www.missile llow">http://www.missilet seems space based missile r information to share on 0, 0), 12:21 PM ⚫ Jul 10, 2024 355.1K Views source: #whois.apnic.net % [whois.apnic.net] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html % Information related to '110.34.4.0 110.34.4.255' % Abuse contact for '110.34.4.0 110.34.4.255' is 'abuse@subisu.net.np' inetnum: netname: descr: country: admin-c: tech-c: abuse-c: status: mnt-by: mnt-irt: last-modified: source: irt: address: address: address: e-mail: abuse-mailbox: 110.34.4.0 110.34.4.255 SUBISU Corporate_Pool17 SUBISU Corporate_Pool17 NP ATC1-AP SA1-NP AS2579-AP ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE MAINT-NP-SUBISU IRT-SUBISUCABLENET-NP-NP 2021-02-02T16:05:26Z APNIC IRT-SUBISUCABLENET-NP-NP PO Box: 6626, Baluwatar Kathmandu Nepal engg@subisu.net.np abuse@subisu.net.np

SiegedSec also announced that they were disbanding in their Telegram[1] channel on July 10th following the leaks.

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External References

[1] Telegram – SiegedSecurity

[2] X – ZachTheW0lf

[3] Catbox – Files

[4]  X – MHowellTweets

[5] X – HackingButLegal

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