Heritage Foundation insists it was not hacked by “gay furries”

Sounds to me like they still haven’t rectified the breach. Cool. 🤘

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

You cannot hide Your means are miniscule compared to mine. You now can either turn yourself in or you can cooperate

This guy talks like a moronic middle school bully. And the fucked up grammar (especially casing) is definitely on brand.
- Literally sounds like a teenage boy who spent too much time on 4chan
- Just going from the headline, I assumed the "Heritage Foundation" was a non profit that worked to preserve our civilisation's historic buildings, locations, works of art and culture.
  
  Turns out they're just bigoted fascists, I guess? Huh.
  
  A lot of those over in the USA at the moment. I mean, we have our fair share in Europe too, but ya know, it feels like it's reaching a tipping point in the USA where fascists have by now infiltrated everything at all levels... :-/
- I’m waiting for them to try using the navy seal copypasta “unironically”
- Closeted Furries will be presented to the world for the degenerate perverts they are
  
  Dunno, this seems like he's having fun too, just not clearly enough.
  
  Or maybe it's really that bad.
- You cannot hide Your means are miniscule compared to mine.
  
  Took me about two minutes on a cellphone to find his home address using public records. And another minute to find his fax number.
  
  Maybe I should introduce him to the wonderful world of gay furry images.
- This guy read about AM once and decided to base his whole life around the guy.

Furries keep the Internet running. Anger them at your peril.

Can confirm, my co-worker is a furry and they keep the Internet running.

My "I haven't been hacked by gay furries" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my T-shirt

whats ur opinion on vore
- It makes me hungry 🫤
- I myself am an omni, but I don't judge others if they like prefer something different.

Have you hugged your gay furry today?

Accepting hugs 24/7
- 🫂
- If I wear a Velcro suit while hugging you would wacky sitcom level shenanigans occur?
Wait, you can own a furry?
- No, but I bet head scritches and treats will endear them to you
- Yes you can but you are legally obligated to say "who rescued who?" At least once a day to a person.

I love it when real news report headlines sound like an article from The Onion.

I don't... It's fucking depressing
- Satire done right is close enough to reality to make you pause for a second and wonder, "Is this for real?"
  
  Stands to reason that it works the other way too.
- I think in this case it's a good thing tho (normally I'm with you)
- Why? The Heritage Foundation are an intellectual joke. They can't win in the war of ideas, they can't suggest ideas that will last any test of time, and now are actively working to make their whim law crushing democracy itself. So if they are a joke why not mock them?
  
  Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand
  
  Mark Twain
  
  And in this event is the seeds to beat the bastards. They want us to be scared they want us to take them seriously. Some group of script kiddies made them say gay furries. To actually go out there and talk about gay furries. Serious men in serious suits saying gay furries.
  
  Keep it up. Make them talk about sex toys, pointless fandom debates, body fluids, anything that brings them down to the level of mockery

As much of the IT sector makes up that group I'm surprised more breaches like this haven't happened.

There is a secret war being fought in the digital depths of cyberspace...

“I’m not owned! I’m not owned!” I continue to insist as I slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob

The information obtained was limited to usernames, names, email addresses, and incomplete password information of both Heritage and non-Heritage content contributors, as well as article comments and the IP address of the commenter. No Heritage systems were breached at any time, and all Heritage databases and websites remain secure, including Project 2025. The data at issue has been taken down, and additional security steps have since been taken as a precaution.

So you're saying that there was no breach at heritage because... you gave away your users data to a contractor?

Yeah, what a cop out.

We weren't hacked, guys! It was just our data specifically that was hacked from the contractors we pay to protect it! That's totally different and better, right?

They have no comment on if they were hacked by pansexual furries.

Well, maybe not exactly "hacked", is that what they mean?

Penetration!
- Less of a trojan, more of a knot
- "Fellas is it gay to get penetrated by furrys?"
  
  Wait, wait No not like that!!

I want everything SiegedSec found. I intend to copy it and store it for safekeeping.

Do it

Do you think there's a real link between furries being gay, like the type of person who is a furry just tends to be disproportionately gay and online?

Or a sociological link like people who are open enough about sexual preferences will tend to be open about all of them?

Or a news bias link like plenty of hackers are gay but you don't hear about it, but if they are

Or is this always just the one gay furry hacker group?

I think it’s about lines of social taboo. Coming out as gay means you’ve already done something socially difficult, and it means you’re closer to social fringes. It’s what I’ve always suspected for why queer people, polyamorous people, and people into bdsm wind up overlapping more than expected.
It's because the furry fandom, when it was founded back in the late 70's by a gay polycule of sci-fi fans, was one of the only communities in existence that accepted openly gay and trans people. (And the only non-fetish community.) For many queer people, the furry fandom is the first place they ever feel welcome.
- Basically the two weird kids in school decided to hangout together? I don't mean that in a bad way, I mean in a cute way.
There seems to be a link between neurodivergence and LGBTQ+ tendencies, from purely anecdotal evidence. Perhaps it's because neurodivergent people seem to be more willing to question the status quo and self-examine without the assumption that they must be however society deems "normal?"
I think all those are a little true. But I'm mostly guessing. I'm happy to change my mind if anyone knows better.

Either way, these folks are my hero.
There's a great CCC talk that goes into the connections a bit
Do you think there’s a real link between furries being gay, like the type of person who is a furry just tends to be disproportionately gay and online?

there's a disposition between gay people and being furries, not between being furry, and being gay.

It's a little weird, but it's just a technicality of the furry community being the way that it is. It's the same reason the US government is 90% people above the age of 60 right now. It's just demographic shenanigans.
Eh, the only furries I know personally are a straight couple. So I'm not sure what that does to your metrics.

i just want to know what picture they sent to the guy on signal...

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A group of self-proclaimed “gay furry hackers” says it breached the Heritage Foundation earlier this month, releasing two gigabytes of the right-wing think tank’s internal data on Tuesday.

The group also cited their objections to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s policy proposal for a second term for former President Donald Trump, as a motivating factor.

The chat logs show a person who claims to be Howell asking a SiegedSec member why the group hacked the Heritage Foundation and threatening to expose the hackers.

In a statement on Telegram, SiegedSec said the goal of the hack was to draw attention to — and combat — the Heritage Foundation’s anti-LGBT and anti-abortion policy proposals.

Broadly speaking, its recommendations involve expanding presidential power, purging federal agencies of career employees, and replacing them with Trump loyalists.

Trump recently attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, claiming he has “no idea” who is behind the plan — even though a CNN analysis found that more than 140 former members of his administration were involved in drafting the mandate.

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These really should get their own pinned-to-top auto-collapsed space.

It wasn't gay gurries, it was a group of straight scalies!

Baghdad Bob could not be reached for comment in his bomb shelter.

Cue the Dril tweet.

they haven't been WHAT by gay furries??

And if they were, they files went to them, they weren't the recievers and thats for sure!