Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims NATO website breach
In a series of events that future historians will point to as emblematic of our age, NATO— y'know, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, established in 1949 to wage Cold War against the Soviet Union—is «actively addressing incidents affecting some unclassified NATO websites» following an alleged intrusion by a group of «gay furry hackers».
That's what the alliance tells The Register, anyway, in the wake of a September 30 claim from a hacker group called SiegedSec that it has obtained «over 3 thousand files totaling to over 9GB of uncompressed Data!» after gaining access to six NATO web portals.
Siegedsec has leaked NATO again!This time releasing over 9GB of data uncompressed!Siegedsec:2Nato:0 pic.twitter.com/5nvuL1D6LdSeptember 30, 2023
None of those, mind you, are liable to put the codes for the nukes in the hands of anyone untoward (or more untoward than the people who are meant to have them, anyway). We're talking about sites like the NATO Investment Division Portal, the NATO Standardization Office, and—ironically, given that this is the second time SiegedSec has claimed to have gotten its hands on internal NATO docs—the NATO Lessons Learned Portal.
«NATO: 0 Siegedsec: 2,» wrote the hackers on their Telegram post claiming the breach, boasting that «The astonishing siegedsec hackers have struck NATO once more!!1!!!»
«We tend to have fun breaching intergovernmental alliances between large nations :p,» continued the post, before getting into the details of the sites SiegedSec claims to have hacked and posting a link to a download page for the data the group says it's purloined.
The SiegedSec Telegram page doesn't go into much detail about the group's motivations, but it does proudly say the group is made of «gay furry
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