“Gay Furries” Claim to Have Hacked State Government Websites

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The Guardian. “We have decided to make a message towards the U.S. government,” the group posted on the social network Telegram, boasting of the Fort Worth breach. “Texas happens to be one of the largest states banning gender-affirming care and for that, we have made Texas our target.

Fuck the government.”According to the Daily Dot, the hackers released various files, including work orders, employee lists, invoices, police reports, emails, and internal documents.SiegedSec claimed it was able to access Fort Worth’s database after obtaining login credentials from a city employee.

In a statement to the Daily Dot, YourAnonWolf, a prominent member of the hacking group, said that Fort Worth was just one of several governments it plans to target.“We targeted Fort Worth mostly because it was a vulnerable target in a list we had, we were checking any government domain associated with Texas,” YourAnonWolf said. “This is the start of a campaign against all states banning gender-affirming care, we have a few more attacks planned soon.”City officials confirmed the breach, but clarified that the breach affected a system for internal work orders, seeking to assure the public that no sensitive information had been compromised.“I want to emphasize that through our investigations we have found no indication that there has been sensitive information related to either residents or businesses or employees that have been released as part of this incident,” Kevin Gunn, Fort Worth’s IT Solutions Director, said in a news conference on June 24.“Those attachments include things like photographs, spreadsheets, invoices for work performed, PDF documents, emails between staff, and other information related to work orders,” Gunn said. “No indication.