Heritage Foundation Official Threatens Hacktivist Furry with Disturbing Messages

When SiegeSec – a group of self-described "gay furry hackers" – claimed to have breached the servers of The Heritage Foundation – a right-wing think tank that has created Project 2025, a document of more than 900 pages detailing goals for a second Trump presidency, many of which attack the civil rights of women, queer Americans, minorities, and non-Christians – former Trump official Mike Howell flew into a rage that included threatening to send a member of the group to prison, where he would be "pounded in the ass," Rolling Stone reported.

Claiming to defend the rights of transgender Americans, the group have hacked various government websites in the past.

"Heritage Foundation was selected due to its Project 2025 plans, seen as a blueprint for Donald Trump to reshape the U.S. with sweeping far-right reforms should he win another term as president," RS detailed, adding that one f the hackers – who goes by the name vio –  said that SiegedSec "aimed to provide 'transparency to the public regarding who exactly is supporting' Heritage, and that the leaked data included 'full names, email addresses, passwords, and usernames' of individuals linked to the nonprofit."

The Heritage Foundation denied that the hackers had breached their servers, Newsweek reported, claiming that all the group had accessed was "a two-year-old archive of The Daily Signal website that was available on a public-facing website owned by a contractor."

The Daily Signal is "the media arm of The Heritage Foundation," noted The Daily Dot.

Whatever the case, Howell "contacted SiegedSec in the wake of the breach to get answers about their motivations," RS relayed, "and as he continued to message 'vio,' his texts grew more unhinged and threatening."

Howell, who serves as "the executive director of Heritage's Oversight Project, an initiative focused on border security, elections, and countering the 'influence' of the Communist Party of China," reportedly expressed disbelief that the group had targeted the Heritage Foundation because they are "strongly against Project 2025 and everything the heritage foundation stands for," as vio informed him.

But then he went full MAGA.

"We are in the process of identifying and outing members of your group," RS quoted Howell as telling vio. "Reputations and lives will be destroyed. Closeted Furries will be presented to the world for the degenerate perverts they are."

Howell then played the religion card, declaring, "God created nature, and nature's laws are vicious. It is why you have to put on a perverted animal costume to satisfy your sexual deviances."

Once Howell had strayed into prurient sexual territory, he seemed to revel there, waring vio, "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?"

Howell also fell back on a tried and true anti-LGBTQ+ talking point, comparing the wearing of cartoonish animal-themed costumes with sexual intercourse between people and actual animals.

The response from vio, RS detailed, was to inform Howell that the exchange was going to be made public. Howell invited vio to proceed, declaring, "I hope the word spreads as fast as the STDs do in your degenerate furry community."

Howell didn't wait for vio to make the exchange public – he posted it on X (formerly Twitter) himself, complete with the lyrics to a 24-year-old Eminem song.

Meantime, The Daily Dot followed up with a report that the "gay furry hackers" had decided to bring SiegedSec to an end. Crowed Howell took to X once again to crow, "COMPLETE AND TOTAL VICTORY. I have forced the Gay Furry Hackers to DISBAND."

"But it remains to be seen whether these hackers – who last year managed to breach NATO systems as well as a major U.S. nuclear lab that they demanded begin research on 'creating IRL catgirls' – will truly disappear into the shadows," Rolling Stone observed.