Daily Dot, X stated that a user had reported SiegedSec’s account for violating its “rules against posting private information.”The accounts were banned following a multi-day hacking campaign during which the group leaked data from Amplify AI, a company that provides AI-driven comment moderation solutions for Facebook and Instagram.
It included basic account information, such as email addresses for company employees. A screenshot shared on SiegedSec’s Telegram also suggested the group had gained access to Amplify AI company source code and an administrator portal, which allegedly included direct messages from an account run by President Joe Biden’s campaign.SiegedSec also leaked data that it allegedly obtained from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which the group has targeted in the past.
A Daily Dot analysis found that the data contains contact information, including email addresses and phone numbers, for high-ranking military officials worldwide and various unclassified documents.But SiegedSec claims that its members believe one hack in particular led to the suspension of their accounts on X.Following several months of teasing its social media followers, the group announced that it had obtained data from the Heritage Foundation, and had promised, on its X account, to publish the data on July 10.“they didnt want us posting the heritage hack tomorrow,” vio wrote on their account.According to the Daily Dot, SiegedSec leaked about 200 gigabytes of data on their Telegram account, containing information from between 2007 and 2022, focusing primarily around the think tank’s news wing, The Daily Signal.The data includes commenters’ emails and IP addresses, full names, usernames, and passwords, as well as.
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