'Gay furry hackers' brag of second NATO break-in, steal and leak more data

NATO is "actively addressing" multiple IT security incidents after a hacktivist group claimed it once again breached some of the military alliance's websites, this time stealing what's claimed to be more than 3,000 files and 9GB of data. When asked about this alleged intrusion, a NATO official declined to answer specific …

[Sora2566]

"Gay furry hackers"

"Telegram"

I wouldn't have thought that those two would really go together...

[Anonymous Coward]

Furries and Telegram users both generally take a sceptical view towards age-of-consent laws.

[Anonymous Coward]

gay furry telegram users

I was going to suggest "Nancy Bears".

But then I realised it could be a False Fag operation.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well they can't be Russian then.

Russia doesn't go for the "queer eye" side of things, and their furry hats are far from fetish material.

[Mockup1974]

Re: Well they can't be Russian then.

Maybe they're commies and side with Russia because they're anti-western. It doesn't need to make too much sense, after all there's also far right people siding with Russia even though the official reason for invading Ukraine is "denazification". Some people don't understand that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" isn't always true.

[Paul Kinsler]

"and have a flare for political publicity stunts"

Well, I suppose if you have no natural talent or aptitude (i.e. "flair") for publicity stunts, then something as crude as lighting a firework will have to do...

[EricB123]

Well, Have You?

"Have you hugged your furry today?"

[matthewdjb]

Gay furry hackers? It's that cat over the keyboard again.

[An_Old_Dog]

Processing Time

Who has time to go through 9GB of documents and sort through what's valuable and what isn't?

Even if you did a full-text search for, say, "nuclear", you'd probably end up with tons of documents relating to such things as "Storage, Siting, and Maintenance of Nuclear Materials Exterior Packaging Units" (wooden crates holding metal containers holding smaller metal containers containing ...), "Screw-Type Fastener Requirements for Constructing Nuclear Materials Exterior Packaging Units", "Catalog of Approved Screw-Type Fasteners for Constructing Nuclear Materials Exterior Packaging Units", "Ordering Procedures for Catalogs of Approved Screw-Type Fasteners for Constructing Nuclear Materials Exterior Packaging Units", ...