The leader of the defunct “gay furry hacker” group SiegedSec, known for releasing 200 gigabytes of leaked data from the Heritage Foundation last July, may have been the subject of an FBI raid, according to a former member.
As the DailyDot reported, a former member of SiegedSec shared their concerns about the group’s former leader, “vio”, in a Wednesday, March 27 X post.
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“I regret to inform you that vio’s location was raided earlier today,” @mewmrrpmeow wrote. “She is no longer accessible, contactable, or reliable.”
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I regret to inform you that vio's location was raided earlier today. She is no longer accessible, contactable, or reliable.
— . (@mewmrrpmeow) March 26, 2025
I'm available to address any inquiries you may have.
In a follow-up post, @mewmrrpmeow wrote that “there appears to be a lack of official information being released about the situation,” and clarified that they were “only sharing what I know in the interest of transparency.”
The same day, independent investigative reporter Ryan Fae (@RhinozzCode) cited @mewmrrpmeow as “a source close to vio” who had told him that SiegedSec’s former leader had been “raided in the US this morning.” Fae confirmed that @mewmrrpmeow is “an ex-SiegedSec member and associate of vio’s.”
“To be clear,” Fae wrote in a follow-up post, “this is a developing situation. I cannot confirm any of the information the source/account is providing, but I will note that they are confirmably close, and that vio’s current Signal (which she was responding to this week) no longer has messages delivered to it.”
to be clear: this is a developing situation. I cannot confirm any of the information the source/account is providing, but I will note that they are confirmably close, and that vio's current Signal (which she was responding to this week) no longer has messages delivered to it.
— ryan fae (@RhinozzCode) March 27, 2025
Them also reported on Wednesday, April 2, that messages sent to vio via Signal had failed to send.
Maia arson crimew, who the DailyDot and Them identify as a hacker who discovered the U.S. No Fly list on an unsecured server in 2023, also appeared to confirm @mewmrrpmeow’s involvement with SiegedSec. On March 26, Crimew shared screenshots of what appear to be communication with @mewmrrpmeow via X comments.
“I am currently pushing for any form of public information to get released,” @mewmrrpmeow wrote. “Nothing I can publicly disclose, but we have ways to verify the safety of each other and those safety checks failed. We also heard her door get busted.”
In a second comment, @mewmrrpmeow wrote that vio “is not answering the phone” and had “directly told me to follow the plan we established if one happened to get raided.”
SiegedSec’s July 2024 Heritage Foundation leak reportedly stemmed from a string of hacks carried out by the group’s “#OpTransRights,” which targeted groups opposed to transgender rights. The Heritage Foundation in particular was targeted for its role in the creation of Project 2025, a plan to install ultraconservative policies for Donald Trump’s second presidential term.
A day after the leak, vio told LGBTQ Nation that “This breach can help shine light on who exactly is supporting Heritage, and also encourage people to fight against them even more than before.”
Within days of claiming credit for the Heritage Foundation leak, SiegeSec released a chat log showing Heritage Foundation executive director Mike Howell threatening to identify and out members of the group.
“Reputations and lives will be destroyed,” Howell, who later verified the chat log’s authenticity to the DailyDot, wrote. “Closeted Furries will be presented to the world for the degenerate perverts they are.”
SiegeSec announced that it was disbanding shortly after releasing the chat log.
In a March 27 X thread, @mewmrrpmeow noted that the group disbanded last July after being “threatened by Heritage Foundation executives who claimed the FBI was ‘working on identifying members of the group.’”
“Yet there’s been no public announcement, no transparency about any investigation or charges. They re-opened the case while implementing their extremist agenda in broad daylight. The FBI never came out with details about the investigation while everyone involved has SEEN IT,” @mewmrrpmeow wrote. They went on to claim that “The FBI has silently conducted raids, arrests, investigations, and more on several people involved with SiegedSec.”
According to the DailyDot, the FBI declined to comment on the matter.
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