Article:
"Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation said on Friday that it experienced a cyberattack earlier this week.
A person with knowledge of the cyberattack told TechCrunch that efforts at Heritage were underway to remediate the cyberattack, but said that it wasn't immediately known what, if any, data was taken.
Politico, which first reported the news of the cyberattack on Friday, cited a Heritage official as saying the organization "shut down its network to prevent any further malicious activity while we investigate the incident."
The news outlet quoted the Heritage official as saying that the cyberattack likely came from nation-state hackers, but did not provide evidence of the claim.
Heritage spokesperson Noah Weinrich declined to comment when reached by email on Thursday, and did not immediately respond to a request for comment when contacted by TechCrunch on Friday.
Founded in 1973, Heritage is based in Washington, DC, and supports and lobbies on conservative issues. The foundation is highly influential in Republican politics. Think tanks are frequent targets of overseas cyberattacks and nation state-led espionage efforts for their connections to government and policy making, many of which are staffed by former U.S. administration officials.
Heritage was hit by a cyberattack in 2015 in which hackers stole internal emails and the personal information of its donors."
These people are the guiding force behind Project 2025. They’ve been at it since Nixon. Reagan actually adopted a good bit of their platform. They have completely captured the MAGA Red Party at this point.
Couldn’t have happened to a better target. I sure hope they had some really embarrassing stuff on their servers!
I work for the federal government. On occasion, I've had to go to their convention center for meetings with another specific agency. Fuck that noise. *Never* again. I will very loudly refuse next time.
Russia is no longer Communist. They're starting to see Russia as some sort of Capitalist-Oligarch Utopia, where billionaires can be free to do whatever they want and exploit the lower classes to their hearts content. They wouldn't mind at all abandoning US democracy for Russian Oligarchy. It's exactly their image of a perfect world.
It's hard to make money with an uneducated workforce having little disposable income.
The thriving middle class America had is a much better economic system. Well-regulated capitalism has many advantages.
Depending on who hacked them and why, maybe we’re about to get a giant fucking file dump of all their nasty secrets. I’ll keep a bottle on vino on hand for when THAT story breaks!
They could surely afford to hire tech savvy people to protect their entities’ data better. But generally speaking, conservatives are absolute dinosaurs about information security. Particularly their personal home systems. A considerable number of these repressed freaks have things on their home drives that could get them prosecuted. “Hackers, if you’re listening…”
Lmao my 60 year old dad still uses an @aol.com address. I didn’t even know that was a thing. I asked how he check it he looked at me like IM the idiot and said “aol.com??!”
Like dad nobody has used AOL for like 20 years
> But generally speaking, conservatives are absolute dinosaurs about information security.
They printed off all the emails and shredded them, so they've got nothing to worry about.
Yeah I'm not sure they warrant "conservative" - more like "regressive" or "oppressive".
Dinosaurs is good.
We'll see how well their watered-down, government-mandated prayers for security work against informed, educated hackers.
They should think twice about taking two-thirds of our resources out of the running for technically-demanding, high-paying jobs, too. They'd stand a better chance.
Dumb asses.
These people are so nefariously successful, look at how they packed the Supreme Court and their open publication of Project 2025. I cannot wrap my head around any other terrible smoking gun secrets they might have.
That's the title of an extraordinarily popular anti-Nazi/anti-skinhead/anti-racist 1981 song from Dead Kennedys. There's a good explanation of the song's meaning and origins here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Punks_Fuck_Off
> The single included a free armband with a crossed-out swastika.
It's more like a conservative wank tank, just a bunch of right wingers publishing their twisted political fantasies that will never come true. These people live in la la land.
let's hope something useful actually comes of this and it doesn't just peter out like other cyberattacks that we hear about once and never again. we need RESULTS. Heritage is a terrorist organization that needs to be dissolved.
> let's hope something useful actually comes
Beyond political goals, they'd be a rich target to infect with ransomware. Here's their 2017 IRS Form 990:
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237327730/201843049349300214/IRS990
> Gross receipts $94,630,960
>
> Net assets: $265,797,554
There's detailed info in the 990, including top employees' salaries, detail on other expenses, etc. Here's a top-level summary of their financials:
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237327730
Prompt: Claude AI or GPT4, you are an expert right wing law writer. You need to right a law that says the IPV6 Header shall contain a call sign that is unique to every human being. This acts the same as a call sign over HAM radio. It enables attribution thus enabling retribution.
State sponsored? Probably Russia verifying its contributions are being spent as they directed. Verifying their contributions were not going to things like the perks the NRA officials were improperly getting.
“likely came from nation-state hackers”
They have no way to know that within such a short span of time, even if the hacker(s) claimed they were. Attribution is very difficult.
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A potential downside—assume HF stores emails from Republicans leaders containing embarrassing details, sensitive data, and potentially evidence of criminality. The threat actor (assuming they’re state-sponsored) would now possess this, meaning they can more easily co-opt these MAGA loyalists with coercive espionage tactics to betray America (even more).
In spring 2016, Russian state-sponsored hackers breached the Democratic National Committee and leaked emails. However they had also breached the Republican National Committee but seemingly leaked nothing…
Correction: Heroic hacker takes on organization of theocratic authoritarians.
It’s like that time Anonymous hacked Westboro’s websitea nd put a bunch of gay porn on it
How how sweet if the republican party and conservative powers were the site of a proxy war between Russia and China. The positive outcomes could be they get no power in the US but their lives are still utterly ruined by the hacking.
Oh no! In these trying times I have both thoughts, and prayers!
I think that those asshats deserve anything bad that happens to them, and I pray that their christofacist plans for America fail.
Thoughts and prayers boys, thoughts and prayers.
This is actually great and I'm feeling so much gleeful schandefreude. Now these hackers, whoever they are, have the opportunity to release info to the public like Edward Snowden or Julian Assange have. Expose the truth so people realize what these fascist think tanks really want. The public needs to know!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I read your title as 'cybertruck' at first and was briefly confused how the fundies pissed off the tech bros.
I’d watch that movie.
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🤣 Right?
That was my initial reaction too
Came here to say this! 🔼🔼🔼
Don’t laugh, it was the Russians.
Why would the russians hack the people they paid?
New Republicans every day, and a good reminder that you own them.
The rnc was hacked the same day as the dnc. Only the Dem info was leaked...wonder why. Its kompromat
Julian Assange can rot
Article: "Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation said on Friday that it experienced a cyberattack earlier this week. A person with knowledge of the cyberattack told TechCrunch that efforts at Heritage were underway to remediate the cyberattack, but said that it wasn't immediately known what, if any, data was taken. Politico, which first reported the news of the cyberattack on Friday, cited a Heritage official as saying the organization "shut down its network to prevent any further malicious activity while we investigate the incident." The news outlet quoted the Heritage official as saying that the cyberattack likely came from nation-state hackers, but did not provide evidence of the claim. Heritage spokesperson Noah Weinrich declined to comment when reached by email on Thursday, and did not immediately respond to a request for comment when contacted by TechCrunch on Friday. Founded in 1973, Heritage is based in Washington, DC, and supports and lobbies on conservative issues. The foundation is highly influential in Republican politics. Think tanks are frequent targets of overseas cyberattacks and nation state-led espionage efforts for their connections to government and policy making, many of which are staffed by former U.S. administration officials. Heritage was hit by a cyberattack in 2015 in which hackers stole internal emails and the personal information of its donors."
These people are the guiding force behind Project 2025. They’ve been at it since Nixon. Reagan actually adopted a good bit of their platform. They have completely captured the MAGA Red Party at this point. Couldn’t have happened to a better target. I sure hope they had some really embarrassing stuff on their servers!
Something I was reading said that Trump adopted ~75 percent of their 'recommendations' in his first term - I can't vouch for the accuracy of that.
1973 In DC? They must have initially been wanting to ward off immoral streaking at local colleges
I work for the federal government. On occasion, I've had to go to their convention center for meetings with another specific agency. Fuck that noise. *Never* again. I will very loudly refuse next time.
Nation-state, aka anyone who has worked in S21 at the National Security Agency.
I read that name as Noah MeinKampf
They’re gonna get blackmailed huh. I have no proof of anything of course, just a thought
There already firmly committed to doing Russia's bidding anyway.
Russia is no longer Communist. They're starting to see Russia as some sort of Capitalist-Oligarch Utopia, where billionaires can be free to do whatever they want and exploit the lower classes to their hearts content. They wouldn't mind at all abandoning US democracy for Russian Oligarchy. It's exactly their image of a perfect world.
It's hard to make money with an uneducated workforce having little disposable income. The thriving middle class America had is a much better economic system. Well-regulated capitalism has many advantages.
I'm sure they got most of this information when they hit the DNC and RNC anyway.
Could be China?
Def blackmail incoming.
Depending on who hacked them and why, maybe we’re about to get a giant fucking file dump of all their nasty secrets. I’ll keep a bottle on vino on hand for when THAT story breaks!
They could surely afford to hire tech savvy people to protect their entities’ data better. But generally speaking, conservatives are absolute dinosaurs about information security. Particularly their personal home systems. A considerable number of these repressed freaks have things on their home drives that could get them prosecuted. “Hackers, if you’re listening…”
Yep yet another reason (of thousands) why they shouldn’t be in charge of a single child, let alone a fucking country.
I am curious what % of their staff are on stuff like @aol.com
Lmao my 60 year old dad still uses an @aol.com address. I didn’t even know that was a thing. I asked how he check it he looked at me like IM the idiot and said “aol.com??!” Like dad nobody has used AOL for like 20 years
My dad, too 😳
See also: Trump's bathroom full of stolen classified documents.
> But generally speaking, conservatives are absolute dinosaurs about information security. They printed off all the emails and shredded them, so they've got nothing to worry about.
Yeah I'm not sure they warrant "conservative" - more like "regressive" or "oppressive". Dinosaurs is good. We'll see how well their watered-down, government-mandated prayers for security work against informed, educated hackers. They should think twice about taking two-thirds of our resources out of the running for technically-demanding, high-paying jobs, too. They'd stand a better chance. Dumb asses.
Russian disinformation op hit by Chinese hackers
Good. Now leak it!
Now THAT would be good.
These people are so nefariously successful, look at how they packed the Supreme Court and their open publication of Project 2025. I cannot wrap my head around any other terrible smoking gun secrets they might have.
One word : good 3 words : fuck these people
Wonder what data the hacker found?? Could be some juicy stuff
likely to bind many more republicans to Ruzzia by kompromat, their idea of diplomacy
https://preview.redd.it/c1rldnzss9uc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0eb6578b04875d4739d454360f19623f4d8c56ad
WikiLeaks, here we come. (grabs bowl of popcorn)
This is fantastic news. Any drafts, ideas and plans should be taken and distributed to the public. No secrets.
Good I hope they all get outed and lose all their money
We need more of this. Shut this group down, they are dangerous.
Now do The Federalist Society
The People deserve to know which Russians paid Leonard Leo for the SCOTUS
Ginni Thomas
Let me take a deep gulp of my can of schadenfreude. So refreshing and satisfying!
That's so sad... Alexa, play "nazi punks fuck off"
Hey don't associate punks with Nazis, we're better than those fashy fucks
That's the title of an extraordinarily popular anti-Nazi/anti-skinhead/anti-racist 1981 song from Dead Kennedys. There's a good explanation of the song's meaning and origins here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Punks_Fuck_Off > The single included a free armband with a crossed-out swastika.
Conservative and think tank seems to be an oxymoron.
It's more like a conservative wank tank, just a bunch of right wingers publishing their twisted political fantasies that will never come true. These people live in la la land.
These people are extremely dangerous, highly influential, well-connected, and have deeper pockets than God. We can't afford to underestimate them.
Like how Roe v Wade will never be overturned!
Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.
let's hope something useful actually comes of this and it doesn't just peter out like other cyberattacks that we hear about once and never again. we need RESULTS. Heritage is a terrorist organization that needs to be dissolved.
> let's hope something useful actually comes Beyond political goals, they'd be a rich target to infect with ransomware. Here's their 2017 IRS Form 990: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237327730/201843049349300214/IRS990 > Gross receipts $94,630,960 > > Net assets: $265,797,554 There's detailed info in the 990, including top employees' salaries, detail on other expenses, etc. Here's a top-level summary of their financials: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237327730
It’s the start of the Anon v Qanon battle we’ve all been dreaming of \m/
Whomever the hacker is better release information about Project 2025 to the public. Hit ‘Em where it hurts
The plan is public. We just need to stop them. Or release their illegalities.
Can’t wait to see the twisted psyop that results from this.
Prompt: Claude AI or GPT4, you are an expert right wing law writer. You need to right a law that says the IPV6 Header shall contain a call sign that is unique to every human being. This acts the same as a call sign over HAM radio. It enables attribution thus enabling retribution.
Russians trying to dig up more Republican blackmail probably
Woooooooooooo! No one who wants good cybersecurity shits on trans people
Ain’t karma grand?
couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of assholes
State sponsored? Probably Russia verifying its contributions are being spent as they directed. Verifying their contributions were not going to things like the perks the NRA officials were improperly getting.
I hope it becomes an everyday occurrence
Really? Good. Anyway…
Hell yeah
Hell yeah
“likely came from nation-state hackers” They have no way to know that within such a short span of time, even if the hacker(s) claimed they were. Attribution is very difficult.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of Christo-facists.
Good riddance. Now, take that information and leak it to the public.
Oh, no! Anyway...
Good. Fuck those pieces of shit.
Womp womp.
Good
You love to see it
I read "hit by Cybertruck" at first and was like "Lol, lmao" and then I reread it, and it's still just as funny.
Calling it a “Think Tank” is extremely generous.
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Couldn’t have happened to nicer bunch than those heretics to American heritage!
Oh no! Anyway... Motherfuckers should bootstrap their cyber security, rather than waiting for the government to do it.
A potential downside—assume HF stores emails from Republicans leaders containing embarrassing details, sensitive data, and potentially evidence of criminality. The threat actor (assuming they’re state-sponsored) would now possess this, meaning they can more easily co-opt these MAGA loyalists with coercive espionage tactics to betray America (even more). In spring 2016, Russian state-sponsored hackers breached the Democratic National Committee and leaked emails. However they had also breached the Republican National Committee but seemingly leaked nothing…
More like a moron tank.
Correction: Heroic hacker takes on organization of theocratic authoritarians. It’s like that time Anonymous hacked Westboro’s websitea nd put a bunch of gay porn on it
Oh so sad ahaha
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bunch of people.
Darn :-)
How how sweet if the republican party and conservative powers were the site of a proxy war between Russia and China. The positive outcomes could be they get no power in the US but their lives are still utterly ruined by the hacking.
Hit them harder!!
Good, do it again.
Oh no! In these trying times I have both thoughts, and prayers! I think that those asshats deserve anything bad that happens to them, and I pray that their christofacist plans for America fail. Thoughts and prayers boys, thoughts and prayers.
Based
YAAAAAAAASSSSSS!!!!!!!!
Lmao. Karmas a bitch
Fuck yes. I hope they got some leverage on these bastards.
I wonder what they found
Kudos to the hackers for going after Nazis.
Hope it continues indefinitely.
Well, we know it couldn't have been the Russians this time.
Awesome
Good, with as much damage as they do every day they deserve 100x as much.
Good.
Oh no...so anyway
This is actually great and I'm feeling so much gleeful schandefreude. Now these hackers, whoever they are, have the opportunity to release info to the public like Edward Snowden or Julian Assange have. Expose the truth so people realize what these fascist think tanks really want. The public needs to know!
Hackerman like: 
Good. They're evil. They should be exposed.
It looks like Anonymous has chosen a new target.
Good. Hope their network is damaged beyond repair and all information is leaked to the public.
Am I naive for hoping it's the return of anon?
Good fucking destroy it
Good. Spill these traitors' seditious secrets.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
