The hacktivists, which describe themselves as made up of “gay furry hackers,” usually target government orgs whose policies they disagrees with, and have a flare for political publicity stunts, also posted a link to the purported stolen files on their Telegram channel.
“The astonishing siegedsec hackers have struck NATO once more!!1!!!,” the crew wrote, bragging: “NATO: 0. Siegedsec: 2.”
The team is referring to its earlier NATO intrusion in July, during which it claimed it swiped information belonging to 31 nations and leaked 845MB of data from the alliance’s the Communities of Interest (COI) Cooperation Portal.
OwO *notices your info*
Joking aside, I’m seriously questioning whether they’re actually furries. On the one hand, a lot of furries are pissed off at the US due to lack of affordable healthcare, the ongoing war against LGBT rights, etc. On the other hand, most furries support NATO to some extent, even if it’s just because the alternative is Russia/China/Middle East, etc who are known for being even worse about civil right.
Then again, we have a group we’ve had a small right-wing extremist group we keep having to boot out of cons, meetups, etc, so I guess it’s possible. I’m just thinking it might be a false flag by Russia or a Russia-aligned group to try and sow division between the furry community and other communities we tend to be closely aligned with (like the LGBT community), or an attempt to get the furry community marked as an extremist organization (kinda like how juggalos are apparently considered an organized crime group by the FBI).
All the furries I know would support NATO, especially since Russia is cracking down on queer people, a decent chunk of which make up the furry community. There are a handful of crazy ones that spend all their time looking at Russian tik tok misinfo shit, but generally they aren’t well regarded and are kicked from most groups because nobody wants that crap.
The stereotype is just too perfect, you know? I’m sure there’s a ton of furry hackers, but there’s a lot more people who have heard of this stereotype and think it’s funny.
I also think furry hackers would target the Repuclican National Convention or something
I think the odds of them all being gay and all being furries and all being exceptional hackers is quite unlikely. It almost implies they’d deny a good asset of helping/joining if it were straight and vanilla.
Not as unlikely as you might think given that 80%+ of the fandom is queer and most are techy, and furries tend to clump together in communities. I do think it’s a bit of a bizarre target to claim a fandom affiliation for though, since their opinions are not representative of the fandom by a long shot.
It seems to me like it might be a smokescreen to hide their identity and motives. It could also be to redirect retaliation towards a group they don’t like, but mostly it just makes the fandom look badass so I don’t think that would be a very good plan. My gut feeling is that it probably is genuine, but there are reasons to be skeptical.
I think the smokescreen part is spot on.
I do believe mostly on the smokescreen theory, maybe they don’t even hate furries and are just using it as a mask, or not all members are furries but one or more KNOWS that bringing “Gay Furry” onto a headline will get most of the attention out of all the group. Either that or they really just wanna brag themselves, which wouldn’t be out of character for furries.