Anonymous, the famous hacker collective, has set its sights on white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan or KKK. The hackers have threatened to unmask 1,000 prominent members of the group. The revelation is the latest update on an ongoing operation against the hate group which started from last year's Ferguson protests, Yahoo News reported.
The KKK threatened violence against protesters then and the hacktivist group retaliated. The "unhooding" of the group will be done sometime close to the anniversary from last year's attacks. The identities of the members were found out when the group hacked into another KKK-affiliated Twitter page, Newser reported.
Operation KKK continues and the group's main Twitter page already reported that many KKK websites have been shut down. Anonymous additionally announced that, After closely observing so many of you for so very long, we feel confident that applying transparency to your organizational cells is the right, just, appropriate and only course of action."
The group added, politely, that, "We will carry out our mission in a responsible, effective manner. We appreciate your patience & support for this initiative."
Other like-minded individuals have started carrying out attacks against the group already, Tech Crunch reported. A hacker known as Amped Attacks took down the official website of the Westboro Baptist Church and other KKK websites.
Most damagingly, Amped Attacks reported that several email addresses belonging to senators and mayors apparently surfaced with the hacks. Some members, fearing the unmasking, have reportedly left the group already.
Amped Attacks also came out with this statement, "I am not involved with Anonymous or any other hacktivist group. I am my own man that acts on my own accord and the take down of WBC is just something i felt like doing cause frankly i am tired of them spewing their hate message."
The list can be found on Pastebin and, while unconfirmed, Amped Attacks says that he cross-referenced KKK databases with public email addresses for the public figures in question.
"I worked for nine days to gather and verify all the information that was gathered before its release. I got the information from several KKK websites when I [hacked] them and was able to dump their database. I went through many emails that was signed up with these sites and a few of the emails that sparked my interest was the ones of the politicians in question there would be no reason for them to be signed up on any KKK website unless they supported it or was involved in it."
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