Crime Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data - A politically-oriented cybercrime group carried out the attack in response to Heritage’s Project 2025.

https://cyberscoop.com/hackvists-release-two-gigabytes-of-heritage-foundation-data/

https://archive.ph/3oI4P

BY AJ VICENS JULY 9, 2024


Former President Donald Trump gives a speech on tax reform at the Heritage Foundation's President's Club Meeting at a hotel in Washington, DC, on October 17, 2017.

An established cybercrime group with a track record of attacking political targets posted on Tuesday roughly two gigabytes of data from the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.

Self-described “gay furry hackers,” SiegedSec said it released the data in response to Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a set of proposals that aim to give Donald Trump a set of ready-made policies to implement if he wins this fall’s election. Its authors describe it as an initiative “to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right.”

The data, reviewed by CyberScoop, includes Heritage Foundation blogs and material related to The Daily Signal, a right-wing media site affiliated with Heritage. The data was created between 2007 and November 2022.

The group says it gained access to the data on July 2 and released it to provide “transparency to the public regarding who exactly is supporting heritage (sic),” a spokesperson for the group who goes by the online handle “vio” told CyberScoop in an online chat Tuesday.

The data includes the “full names, email addresses, passwords, and usernames” of people associating with Heritage, vio said, including users with U.S. government email addresses. “This itself can have an impact to heritage’s (sic) reputation,” they added, “and it’ll especially push away users in positions of power.”

SiegedSec also claimed to be in possession of more than 200 gigabytes of additional “mostly useless” data, which the group said won’t be released.

The attack was carried out as part of SiegedSec’s “OpTransRights,” campaign, which has previously included the defacement of government websites and data theft from states either considering or implementing anti-abortion or anti-trans legislation.

The Heritage Foundation did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. The attack marks the second suffered by Heritage this year. In April, a Heritage official told Politico that the think tank had shut down its network in response to a breach by a nation-state hacking group.

Democrats have sought to tie Trump to Project 2025 proposals as an example of what to expect from his second term. Heritage President Kevin Roberts made news last week when he said the American right was “in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

SiegedSec, which emerged on Telegram in April 2022, has also targeted various NATO portals, the city of Fort Worth and a company involved in the monitoring of offshore oil and gas facilities.

 

[Nekoi.Inukuma.00]

Jackie or as we like to call her Snackie has attached herself to this story and has claimed its all a Chinese op

Her claim from her twitter thread (archive) seems to be the comments section of the Heritage foundation is astroturfed by the Chinese. Like, holy shit, did someone just discover the 50 Cent Army (archive) is real or something? With the breathless manner in which she relates this "no shit sherlock" information, I can never tell if she really is that stupid or she just knows her Stewanon audience is that stupid. It'd be interesting to have similar IP logs from sites like Crooks and Liars or DailyKOS. I'd bet you'd see similar patterns.

Also, Mike Howard may be based for calling the furries degenerates to their [virtual] faces... but he's still a SpEd who doesn't understand you shouldn't feed the trolls (archive).

I don't have enough popcorn for Twitter tonight.

 

[AnOminous]

the messages from the founder are awesome, what a chad

I agree with them on virtually nothing but that fucker is based.

 

[Ghost of Biden]

Her claim from her twitter thread (archive) seems to be the comments section of the Heritage foundation is astroturfed by the Chinese. Like, holy shit, did someone just discover the 50 Cent Army (archive) is real or something? With the breathless manner in which she relates this "no shit sherlock" information, I can never tell if she really is that stupid or she just knows her Stewanon audience is that stupid. It'd be interesting to have similar IP logs from sites like Crooks and Liars or DailyKOS. I'd bet you'd see similar patterns.

Also, Mike Howard may be based for calling the furries degenerates to their [virtual] faces... but he's still a SpEd who doesn't understand you shouldn't feed the trolls (archive).

I don't have enough popcorn for Twitter tonight.

Between this and the Biden NATO conference my half full bottle of Chopin vodka™ is already empty, or as I say, it’s a start to a good weekend.

 

[LoTex]

Heritage is one of those Buckleyite mainstream neocon think tanks that have failed to conserve anything beyond Raytheon & Lockheed Martin's profit margins for the last 50 years (quite literally, they were founded in 1973), and were more recently among the many Republican establishment types felted by Trump (although them not going full retard with the Never-Trump stuff has allowed them to retain a degree of relevance post-2016, unlike say the Lincoln Project circus). Imagine first being stupid enough to think these supremely watered-down perennial losers were going to be the architects of any great Christian nationalist takeover with an eye on retvrning to the 1954 societal status quo, and secondly getting BTFO'd so brutally by them anyway that you even somehow made these stodgy old-guard ConInc brainlets look genuinely based in the process.

I'm almost tempted to wonder whether SiegedSec were actually hired by Mike Howell this whole time in some convoluted gayops to enhance Heritage's street cred with the rising right-wing populist crowd. But then I remembered that nope, terminally online tranny furry faggots really can be and often are this retarded.

Heritage Foundation are not Neocons btw, they are against sending more money to Ukraine and the like. They are far closer to the Christian Right and Paleoconservatives and they essentially want a Conservative Christian Republic.

 

[Ghost of Biden]

Heritage Foundation are not Neocons btw, they are against sending more money to Ukraine and the like. They are far closer to the Christian Right and Paleoconservatives and they essentially want a Conservative Christian Republic.

They sound like neocons from the description you give. What else could the Judeo-Christian right be labeled as? Idiots?

 

[Chuckwagon]

Heritage Foundation are not Neocons btw, they are against sending more money to Ukraine and the like. They are far closer to the Christian Right and Paleoconservatives and they essentially want a Conservative Christian Republic.

Yeah nowadays, as I said, it's been a good couple years since Trump tore them (and the rest of the Republican old guard) several new assholes. I recall they were cheerleaders for both the Gulf & Iraq Wars and the War on Terror in general back in the Bushes' day and they still have plenty of recently-published articles on their website maintaining the traditional neocon line of zealous support for Israel, identifying Israeli & US security interests as the exact same thing, etc. It's just that 1) Trump bursting onto the scene has heralded a revival of anti-interventionist/isolationist sentiment on the American right in any meaningful sense for the first time since Bob Taft Sr. died in 1953, forcing them to be at least a little bit more selective in which overseas conflicts they want the US to stick its dick into (Pat Buchanan was never able to get this part to stick in his day) and 2) Ukraine has become especially unpopular with Republicans, being perceived as the personal piggybank & crime hub of the Bidens and other politicians they hate, while also never commanding as much influence as Israel does on the domestic American political scene.

 

[AnOminous]

They sound like neocons from the description you give. What else could the Judeo-Christian right be labeled as? Idiots?

They sound like Jewish ex-Trotskyites? Not seeing it dude.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

I'm curious about Mike Howell sending them their Bitcoin addy at the end. Did they just have it on their Signal profile or did they attempt to ransom them at the very beginning but chose not to include that in the log as it's bad optics?

Guess we'll never know but these guys seem so fucking stupid that the addy is probably 1 degree of separation from the dude's Coinbase account.

Rest in piss "SeigedSec".

Imagine being body checked intellectually by the equivalent of Mitt Romney.

 

[Male Idiot]

So its 200 gigabytes of jesus prayers and ILI (I love Israel)s and they still got felted by some boomercon.

Trannies can't into W lol.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Now those targets, that'd be the good sauce, and will absolutely get you v&.

Indeed, that would been having the icing on your cake.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Imagine being body checked intellectually by the equivalent of Mitt Romney.

Why even talk to him at all? You stole their data and the media is praising your group for striking a blow to project 2025.

It is either extream hubris and/or greedy for a ransom.

 

[Broadside]

Can't wait for P2025 to just be more milquetoast conservative BS

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Can't wait for P2025 to just be more milquetoast conservative BS

I thought the primary purpose of Project 2025 was to remove as many Democrats from permanent bureaucratic positions, and replace them with Republicans. In which case, it's milquetoast only if they utterly fail to dislodge them or can't find enough real "Trump loyalists" to fill in the positions. There are other goals of P2025 but this looks like the biggest one to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#Personnel_change

Project 2025 proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with Trump loyalists, who would be willing to bend or break protocol, or in some cases violate laws, to achieve his goals. It also established a personnel database shaped by Trump's ideology. The project uses a questionnaire to screen potential recruits for their adherence to the project's agenda.

What you would end up seeing as a result is a DNC Project 2029/2033 to undo the changes and purge the previous batch of loyalists, and so on after every changing of the guard - forever.

 

[Chuckwagon]

I thought the primary purpose of Project 2025 was to remove as many Democrats from permanent bureaucratic positions, and replace them with Republicans. In which case, it's milquetoast only if they utterly fail to dislodge them or can't find enough real "Trump loyalists" to fill in the positions. There are other goals of P2025 but this looks like the biggest one to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#Personnel_change

What you would end up seeing as a result is a DNC Project 2029/2033 to undo the changes and purge the previous batch of loyalists, and so on after every changing of the guard - forever.

Isn't that how it used to work? Whenever a new Democrat or Republican (or their predecessors, the Democratic-Republicans and Federalists/Whigs) got in, they'd turf out the other side's guys and hire their own. The patronage appointments knew they'd only stay in as long as their party still held the government, wouldn't collude across party lines as often (because the other party directly threatened their positions) and couldn't persistently carry out long-term agendas (due to there being no guarantee that the other party's people wouldn't also cancel/slow-walk/defund their pet projects once they got in). I don't think it was until the late 19th century that this old spoils system began to be replaced with the permanent 'nonpartisan' and 'professional' civil service, which was definitively firmly entrenched in the FDR years.

Honestly, at this point a return to the spoils system is looking pretty damn good compared to the alternative. At least bureaucrats were relatively few in number and honest about their political leanings then, and I doubly don't think it's a coincidence that the federal government in particular didn't start becoming the absolute leviathan that it is now until said bureaucracy was allowed to become a powerful, increasingly hard-to-fire political class in their own right that was disconnected from the normal democratic process. The last 10 years alone have abundantly demonstrated that making the bureaucracy a permanent, established deep state that persists and does its own thing regardless of who's nominally in charge over at the White House has in no way discouraged rampant corruption & political partisanship in its ranks - quite the contrary. And the Democrats at least have no problem whatsoever with purging gov't employees they don't like/trust and installing partisan hacks wherever they can get away with it anyway, the disastrous consequences be damned (ex. Obama's purge of the old generals and elevation of their proto-woke replacements early in his presidency).

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

the messages from the founder are awesome, what a chad

This ONE MAN has more balls than the entire 1/6 mob.

 

[Standardized Profile]

I thought the primary purpose of Project 2025 was to remove as many Democrats from permanent bureaucratic positions, and replace them with Republicans. In which case, it's milquetoast only if they utterly fail to dislodge them or can't find enough real "Trump loyalists" to fill in the positions. There are other goals of P2025 but this looks like the biggest one to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#Personnel_change

What you would end up seeing as a result is a DNC Project 2029/2033 to undo the changes and purge the previous batch of loyalists, and so on after every changing of the guard - forever.

There are about 3300 Presidential and Schedule C appointees in the Plum Book. "Tens of thousands" sounds like it's adding a lot, but it's only 1-4% of the 2.2 million Federal employees. Depending on how it's implemented, I imagine most would be unaffected. If you're not in a policy-making position, and you're doing your job effectively and impartially, and (most importantly) no donor's kid wants your job, then there's little reason for a new administration to replace you.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Everytime this thread is bumped I keep hoping it's with a video of fat faggot in a fursuit getting lit up by the police as he tries to escape his basement hovel.

 

[Cuban Pete]

It’s really pathetic that the founder’s attempts to move the furry IRL, into call, or into a compromised IRC failed miserably and just ended up talking philosophy before pulling amerimutt’s law only to have it received positively
Nigga fed the troll and was shat on by a furry
What a dumb nigger

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

No. It's just a bunch of bland conservatives at work doing work stuff. Nothing illegal. Wow. What a find.

I know really not even dick pics and nudes sent to randos from work emails. Thats truly shocking.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

It’s really pathetic that the founder’s attempts to move the furry IRL, into call, or into a compromised IRC failed miserably and just ended up talking philosophy before pulling amerimutt’s law only to have it received positively
Nigga fed the troll and was shat on by a furry
What a dumb nigger

All is forgiven if the FBI vans the acktivists within a few weeks.