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Activists Hack Fort Worth City Systems over Texas Ban on Transgender Surgeries for Minors

Tré Goins-Phillips : Jun 27, 2023  Faithwire.com

The hack in Fort Worth comes just a couple months after the city of Dallas dealt with a ransomware attack...

[Faithwire.com] Over the weekend, a hacker cell targeted the city of Fort Worth, Texas, ostensibly over the state's restrictions on minors receiving irreversible transgender-related procedures and treatments. (Image: Unsplash-Mika Baumeister)

The group, SiegedSec, claimed responsibility for the breach, which occurred around 4 p.m. Friday, according to the Daily Mail. Officials with Fort Worth said the message they received from the hackers condemned the US government and Texas' ban on transgender operations for minors.

"We have decided to make a message toward the US government," the alleged hackers wrote in a Facebook post. "It just happens to be one of the largest states banning gender affirming care and, for that, we have made Texas our target."

While the breach in government data is certainly concerning, officials said no sensitive information was disclosed in the hack, WFAA-TV reported.

Kevin Gunn, the IT solutions director for Fort Worth, said the data gathered in the cyberattack was "not sensitive in nature" and included the type of information the government would have released in a Freedom of Information Act request.

The hack in Fort Worth comes just a couple months after the city of Dallas dealt with a ransomware attack, which put Gunn's IT team on high alert... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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