Anonymous Releases Data Dump Claiming to Yank Hoods off Ku Klux Klan Members
Last week, people affiliated with the hacking collective Anonymous vowed to reveal the identities of hundreds of U.S. Ku Klux Klan members.
Today, Anonymous made good on that threat, publishing the names, aliases, Facebook accounts, Google Plus profiles and other identifying information of individuals tied to Klan-associated organizations. After sending out the link, the seemingly official Operation KKK Twitter tweeted that it had redacted the names of some individuals for reasons of accuracy.
We removed several names from our list for further investigation. We would rather have a smaller, accurate list that we are comfortable with
— Operation KKK (@Operation_KKK) November 5, 2015
Big shoutout to some of the KKK FB accounts that gave us access to secret groups and other klan accounts for #OpKKK pic.twitter.com/NHjSEa6Tu5
— Anon Cop Watch (@AnonCopWatch) November 5, 2015
Read the full story at Re/Code, by Noah Kulwin
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