The base of the leader of a disbanded group of gay furry hackers has been raided by the FBI, according to reports.
SiegedSec posted data last July that it claimed to have hacked from The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind the right-wing policy document Project 2025.
Known only as Vio, SiegedSec’s co-leader at the time wrote on Telegram that the group was responsible for a cyber-attack which secured 200GB of files from The Heritage Foundation, including passwords and information about “every user” on its database.
“We’re strong against Project 2025 and everything The Heritage Foundation stands for,” Vio, told The Intercept. The think tank responded to the hack by calling the group “degenerates”, and warned that they’d get “pounded in the a*s” in federal prison.
Now, Vio’s base has been raided by federal agents, according to a former group member with the user name Mewmrrpmeow. “She is no longer accessible, contactable or reliable,” they wrote on social media.
The raid was reported by Out magazine, the Daily Dot and Computing, and the Telegram account linked to Vio was said to no longer be active or accepting messages. The FBI has not commented.
In a follow-up post, Mewmrrpmeow wrote: “I am currently pushing for any form of public information to get released. Hence the urgency of my announcement. Nothing I can publicly disclose, but we have ways to verify the safety of [one another] and those safety checks failed. We also heard her door get busted.”
Journalist Ryan Fae confirmed the connection between Mewmrrpmeow and SiegedSec but did not confirm the raid.
to be clear: this is a developing situation. I cannot confirm any of the information the source/account is providing, but I will note that they are confirmably close, and that vio’s current Signal (which she was responding to this week) no longer has messages delivered to it.
— ryan fae (@RhinozzCode) March 27, 2025
Project 2025 is an ultra-right-wing proposed presidential playbook that provisionally planned out US president Donald Trump’s first 180 days in office before his victory in last year’s election.
It focuses on a wide-range of subjects, including abortion, the “natural family structure”, and a social-science-reinforced, Bible-based definition of marriage and family. Other targets include diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives in higher education, and immigration.
SiegedSec, a collective of self-proclaimed gay furry hackers, first emerged in early 2022 as a “hacktivist” group aiming to target anti-LGBTQ+ organisations.
In 2023, it hacked one of the biggest nuclear laboratories in the US, demanding employees focus on research into “real-life cat-girls“. They have also targeted NATO and Israeli companies, in opposition to the war in Gaza.
“Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow,” the group wrote in a post after it hacked NATO for a second time.
It is not known to which of SiegedSec’s hacks the reported raid is related.
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