Micah Lee 🫡

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

LC is best known for legal battles over abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, but it turns out its growth exploded in 2020, starting with anti-vax fundraising appeals, and moving on to anti-democracy activism in support of the Big Lie — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

The hacked data also included a copy of everything in LC's web root. I found 100 photos of passports that were publicly accessible on LC's website to anyone with the URLs — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

Since all of WMTEK's clients ran the same vulnerable SiteStacker code, the hacker went ahead and hacked them all as well. I added up the financial transactions for all of the hacked orgs (over 90 of them): over $748 million has flowed through these Christian groups since 2015 — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

The hacker first discovered that if you ask LC's API would information about users, it would give you the user hashes. And they found an admin user (who works for WMTEK) with the password "Password1". From there they found an RCE that let the dump the whole database https://t.co/QMKFrzAQ9E — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

LC's website is based on software called SiteStacker, developed by WMTEK, a company that builds software exclusively for Christian nonprofits. WMTEK claims that 33% of Christian mission agencies use Site Stacker -- all of these are in the hacked data — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

The two weeks before Election Day, Christians in Defense is Israel was even more explicit, in 3 emails. They promised that a second Trump term would bring peace to the Middle East, and pleaded with supporters to vote for Trump https://t.co/jaive9Uh7T — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

On Election Day 2020, LC send an email to their supporters (and published a blog post) talking about how important voting is, and then the rest of it was right-wing media talking points about how corrupt Joe Biden is https://t.co/80kaUoD5tc https://t.co/V641CL29bE — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

LC is an umbrella for several other nonprofits: Liberty Counsel Action, Faith & Liberty, Christians in Defense of Israel. Of these, only LC Action, a 501(c)(4), is allowed to endorse or oppose candidates for office. It's illegal for the others to https://t.co/20qk2wCk1D — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

The day after the Jan 6 attack, LC emailed its supporters, "our research and legal staff have been deeply engaged in stopping the steal of our 2020 elections," and insisted Trump could still remain in power if God intervened https://t.co/TOcc9Zh9z6 — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

LC tried hard to prevent the legalization of gay marriage in the US. After they lost that fight, LC represented Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky who refused to issue a marriage license to a gay couple https://t.co/drWf12ccjn — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

Mat Staver, founder of LC, has advocated criminalizing homosexuality with harsh punishments as well as “curing” LGBTQ+ people https://t.co/bsFFSmbEcf — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

@splcenter designates LC a hate group because of "their vilification of LGBTQ+ people" https://t.co/sodnyIsGPk — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe cited an amicus brief written by LC (a work of dubious scholarship that argued that abortion is a racist tool of eugenics). So the justices praying with an LC ministry is a clear troubling conflict of interest — PolitiTweet.org

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After SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade, Peggy Nienaber, VP of LC’s Faith & Liberty ministry, was caught on a hot mic at an evangelical victory party bragging that her ministry prayed with sitting Supreme Court justices https://t.co/s1Wty9yGW6 — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

The data breach includes another 425GB of data (!) from over 90 other Christian orgs (!) too, most of them missionary groups. It has records of $748 million of transactions from 409k donors, and PII about 1.3 million people. More on that below, but first, Liberty Counsel: — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

The LC data includes detailed records of $12 million worth of financial transactions from 44,000 donors since 2015. (This is only a portion of their revenue, they don't track it all in the digital platform that was hacked.) — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

The hacker brought "much-needed radical transparency" after "noticing a worrying trend of far-right and anti-abortion activists aligning themselves with the evangelical Christian movement, hiding their funding sources" behind tax laws for nonprofit churches https://t.co/4mJgAJpKPw — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

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RT @atrejones: Liberty Counsel’s donor records and pro-Trump election messaging exposed in data breach https://t.co/ND66U3oqvd by @micahfle… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AJVicens: I first wrote about this hack on July 22 but wasn't fully able to dig into the meat, but this is how it's done. Kudos to @mic… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @theintercept: In their allegations, authorities have not offered any explanations about Trump’s motives for retaining classified docume… — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

RT @theintercept: Liberty Counsel’s donor records and pro-Trump election messaging exposed in data breach https://t.co/url3wwFFfS by @micah… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RogerDHodge: Liberty Counsel’s donor records and pro-Trump election messaging exposed in data breach https://t.co/CM5j02zkZU by @micahf… — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: Liberty Counsel, the anti-abortion evangelical Christian non-profit (and anti-LGBTQ hate group) that helped overturn Roe, encouraged voting for Trump despite its IRS church status, according to hacked data https://t.co/e50Jk9R1aG — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @antifaoperative: The Florida judge who ruled that a 17 year old wasn’t mature enough to have an abortion, but was mature enough to have… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AnthonyMKreis: Preemptively posting this. https://t.co/3xSCANnBGg — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

RT @transscribe: if you have a problem with the student loan cancellation because you already paid off your loans, just pretend its a tax c… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RiegerReport: REPORTER: Is this unfair to people who paid their student loans or chose not to take out loans? BIDEN: Is it fair to peo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @revrrlewis: "ok your debt is completely forgiven" - the government to marjorie taylor greene https://t.co/HncbOOOkrH — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kenklippenstein: tax cuts for the rich: prudent economics anything that helps ordinary people: bribing voters https://t.co/y44k9plVPR — PolitiTweet.org