“Gay Furry Hackers” Post Heritage Foundation Data

Cyberscoop reports:

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.

The data includes the “full names, email addresses, passwords, and usernames” of people associating with Heritage, including users with U.S. government email addresses.

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New breach: The Heritage Foundation and their media arm, The Daily Signal, had 72k email addresses breached then published publicly yesterday. Data included name, username, IP address and password hash. 82% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: https://t.co/z90ArUPaW0

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