Mike Howell, the executive director of the Heritage Foundation and the creator of the rightwing Project 2025, is threatening to ensure that hackers who broke into the group's blog site get raped in prison for releasing information about the organizations' funders and contractors.
Hacktivist group SiegedSec apparently engaged in a conversation with Howell over Telegram, which it published online. In the discussion, Howell asked the hackers what they wanted, The New Republic reported.
“Mike Howell reached out to us, at first, to ask questions to understand our motives and why we breached his organization,” SiegedSec said in a July 11 post, Cyber Daily reported. “Then, he proceeded to throw insults, threats, and claimed our existence was against nature.”
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“We tried answering things in a way to hopefully help him understand. But as his insults grew, so did our impatience. So we are releasing all of our chat logs with Mike Howell.”
In it, the hackers claimed there action was to let Americans know who is behind the Heritage Foundation, which is drawing up Project 2025, a guide for a second administration crafted by allies of Donald Trump.
Howell claimed he was “in the process of identifying and outing” members of the Hacktivist group, who call themselves the “gay furries." Their movement has been operating for two years and includes hitting states that instituted bans on reproductive freedom.
“Closeted Furries will be presented to the world for the degenerate perverts they are,” Howell howled. “You cannot hide. Your means are minuscule (sic) compared to mine. You now can either turn yourself in or you can cooperate.”
The hackers didn't buy it.
“None of our members will be identified or outed by your organisation (sic) built on hatred. the only ones deserving of a destroyed life are those within your organisation,” vio replied. “You want me to cooperate? with what, spreading misinformation and hatred? we wont turn against our own people.”
Howell ranted that the members had “turned against nature,” by dressing as hally-go-lucky animals.
“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,” Howell ranted. “It is why you are forced to hide like a coward. You violated our rights and broke the law. You have no standing to discuss such matters.”
He went on with a vulgar threat of sexual violence "in the federal prison I put you in next year,” The New Republic's report of the conversation stated.
“Such unprofessional language from an executive director, would you mind if i (sic) shared this?” vio responded.
In a later statement, the organization claims it "was not hacked" and that the hackers merely "stumbled upon" an archive of their website.
"No Heritage systems were breached at any time, and all Heritage databases and websites remain secure, including Project 2025. The data at issue has been taken down, and additional security steps have since been taken as a precaution," the statement said in part.
