A former member of the group SiegedSec, mewmrrpmeow, broke the news of the raid in a post to X.
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The FBI has raided the leader of the since-disbanded group of gay furry hackers who released data on the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the Daily Dot and Computing report.
A former member of the group SiegedSec, mewmrrpmeow, broke the news of the raid in a post to X.
“I regret to inform you that vio's location was raided earlier today,” user mewmrrpmeow warned in the post. “She is no longer accessible, contactable, or reliable.”
The encrypted Signal account for vio was no longer accepting messages, she has not been responding to other messages from friends and associates.
The connection between mewmrrpmeow and SeigedSec was “vouched” by independent journalist Ryan Fae, Computing reports. Fae said he was unable to confirm the raid, however.
In July of 2024, the group of gay furries posted data it claimed to have hacked from the Heritage Foundation, the group spearheading the Project 2025 agenda. The think tank project promised to roll back LGBTQ+, women’s, and minority rights in the U.S. SiegedSec called the project an “authoritarian Christian nationalist plan” aimed at reshaping U.S. governance.
The Heritage Foundation disputed the hacker’s claims, saying the information was from a two-year-old archive on its online media arm, the Daily Signal.
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SiegedSec first made national headlines in 2023 when it claimed responsibility for attacks on government websites in five states that enacted anti-trans legislation. The group attacked websites for state and local governments in Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Texas, and the city of Fort Worth in Texas.
When the group broke into the Idaho National Laboratory and posted the stolen data on Telegram in November of 2023, they offered an unexpected ransom demand.
“If they research creating IRL catgirls we will take down this post,” the group said, asking the nuclear lab to research the genetic engineering of anime-style female cat-human hybrids, which stems from a long-running meme.
While the hack of Project 2025 gained the most attention for SiegedSec, the hack of the Idaho National Laboratory could be the focus of the FBI raid with the most serious of potential charges. If the Department of Homeland Security determined the hack was an act of terrorism or espionage, vio could be facing up to life in prison.
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