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Hackers VS the KKK; I'm Rooting for the Hackers
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Anonymous KKK members threat: Hackers to expose KKK members identities?
Heather Tooley

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An Anonymous KKK members threat has been released. KKK identities may soon be exposed after the "hacktivist" group revealed that it plans to release up to 1,000 names of Ku-Klux Klan members. Anonymous explains that it's been watching the group for a long time and that disclosing those behind the hoods is "the right course of action."

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Anonymous said of the KKK members in its press release: "You are more than extremists. You are more than a hate group. You operate much more like terrorists and you should be recognized as such. You are terrorists that hide your identities beneath sheets and infiltrate society on every level. The privacy of the Ku Klux Klan no longer exists in cyberspace. You've had blood on your hands for nearly 200 years.

"You continue to inflict civil rights violations, commit violent crimes and solicit others to commit violent criminal acts. You seek to intimidate and/or eliminate those that are different from you and those that you dislike by any means possible."

Fox News reports on October 29 that Anonymous releasing KKK members' identities is being called "Operation KKK Hoodsoff."

As the report said, Anonymous is known for going after groups whose beliefs disagree their own. They've already taken down several Islamic extremist-linked Twitter and Facebook accounts through "Operation ISIS" or #OpISIS.

Will the Anonymous KKK members threat actually happen soon?



http://www.examiner.com/article/anonymous-kkk-members-threat-hackers-to-expose-kkk-members-identities
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Anonymous hackers are claiming that 4 US senators are 'associated with' the KKK


IB Times UK


Anthony Cuthbertson, IB Times UK

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Anonymous has named four US State Senators in a list of public officials allegedly affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. Five mayors from towns in southern states were also named as part of the ongoing Operation KKK, which aims to expose the identities of up to 1,000 members of the white supremacist group.

The names of the politicians have emerged at the same time as contact details were published that Anonymous claims belong to members of the KKK. 57 phone numbers and 24 emails were released by the group, alongside the message: "There is no place for racism now we're more connected, the time to cooperate and better the world is now."

Representatives of the four Senators named on the list have been contacted by IBTimes UK for comment on the matter, though none had responded at the time of publication. The local chapters that each politician is allegedly associated with have also been contacted.


A faction of the amorphous hacktivist group claims to have obtained the information after gaining access to a KKK Twitter account, which enabled more contact details to be uncovered. A hacker by the name of Amped Attacks has claimed to be behind the latest release, saying in a message posted alongside the list: "These are the officials that have political power in the USA that are associated with either KKK or racist related."

Amped Attacks has also released evidence that they are behind attacks on Ku Klux Klan websites that have forced them offline in recent days.


The hacker claims to not be a part of Anonymous, only a supporter of the group's #OpKKK. Amped Attacks revealed to IBTimes UK that the email addresses of the Senators were found in databases held by several KKK sites: "All I can really say without fully admitting to federal charges is that several databases were dumped from different KKK websites that all linked their emails to the politicians in question and the only way their emails would have been on there to begin with is if they showed support when signing up for [the site] or filled out an application."

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In a statement released last week as part of #OpKKK's revival, Anonymous stated: "We are not attacking you because of what you believe in as we fight for freedom of speech. Ku Klux Klan, We never stopped watching you. We know who you are. We know the dangerous extent to which you will go to cover your asses. Originally, we did not attack you for your beliefs as we fight for freedom of speech. We attacked you due to your threats to use lethal force in the Ferguson protests.

"We took this grudge between us rather seriously. You continue to threaten anons and others. We never said we would only strike once... The aim of this operation is digital. Another cyber war trist, nothing more. We are not violent. We will release, to the global public, the identities of up to 1,000 klan members, Ghoul Squad affiliates and other close associates of various factions of the Ku Klux Klan across the Unites States."

This article will be updated when a response from the US Senators is received.

UPDATE 5.17pm (GMT): A comment provided to IBTimes UK from the hacker who first revealed the names of the US Senators has been included.

What is #OpKKK?

Operation KKK, referred to online as #OpKKK, first began in November 2014 during the protests in Ferguson, Missouri.

When a local chapter of the KKK warned protesters that "lethal force" would be used against them, Anonymous took control of the KKK's main Twitter account and published personal information of alleged members of the white supremacist group.

The campaign has continued in 2015, with Anonymous threatening to reveal the identities of up to 1,000 KKK members on 5 November.




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The list most certain will have judges, cops, lawyers, and teachers.
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Hackers Release Personal Information of Alleged KKK Members

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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November 2, 2015 // 02:50 PM EST

Last week, hackers claiming to be affiliated with the hacktivist group Anonymous (as well as a lone vigilante) threatened to publish personal information and “dox” members of the racist group the Ku Klux Klan.

Over the weekend, the hackers delivered on their promises. An Anonymous-affiliated group called YourAntiSec, in reference to a famous hacking operation launched by the Anonymous offshoot LulzSec in the summer of 2011, published a list of phone numbers and email addresses that they claim belong to members and admins of KKK websites.

The hackers released the information in a series of Pastebins. It’s unclear who the phone numbers and emails belong to exactly, or how the hackers obtained them. (The hackers declined to say where they obtained the information.) Some of the numbers, however, appear to be inactive.

The group said the goal was to “draw attention” to its operation, dubbed OpKKK, according to a representative who spoke to Motherboard via Twitter direct message, and also to allow people to call and email these alleged members to tell them “what they think.”

At the same time, a vigilante hacker only known as Amped Attacks released his own dox. This one is a list of political figures, four senators and five mayors, allegedly affiliated with the KKK.

Amped Attacks told Motherboard that he found that information by breaking into a “few sites,” where he found databases with emails linked to the politicians named in the list. Amped Attacks only named them, but didn’t release any emails, phone numbers, or home addresses.

“The reason I do not list the addresses of these people [is] I do not want anybody to easily see this and take criminal action against these racist scum,” the hacker wrote in the Pastebin release.

Amped Attacks told Motherboard that he is not affiliated and did not work with Anonymous.

Meanwhile, some of the senators and mayors named in the list have denied the accusations.

“The claim is 100% false,” a spokesperson for Sen. John Coryn (R-TX) told Motherboard in a phone call. “I don’t know what evidence that he’s provided. He’s provided none. It’s just ridiculous.”

Jim Gray, the mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, tweeted a denial as well, saying the accusation is “false, insulting and ridiculous” and that he has “never had any relationship of any kind with the KKK.”

Tom Henry, mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, also denied, tweeting that the claims “are totally false and irresponsible.”

Paul Fraim, the mayor of of Norfolk, Virginia, echoed these denials.

“The claim [...] is absolutely false and defamatory, Fraim said in a statement emailed to Motherboard. “There is no truth to their statement whatsoever. I am not and have never been affiliated with any such organization. I find it incredulous that these people can hide behind their computers and create such an inaccurate and hateful statement.”

Sen Dan Coats (R-IN) reportedly called them “baseless Internet garbage of the worst kind.”

Motherboard has reached out to the other people on the list, and we will update the post when we hear back.

This article has been updated to clarify that the hackers declined to specify where they obtained the information regarding the alleged KKK members.



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Anonymous Hackers Plan to Expose Politicians Allegedly in KKK

by Tribune News Service | November 3, 2015

By Ernie Suggs

A threat by Anonymous to unmask at least 1,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan might have come to fruition Sunday when the names of notable politicians, supposedly affiliated with the hate group, started coming to light.

A list of nine politicians, including U.S. senators and mayors, was posted late Sunday on a data dump site, well ahead of the Thursday launch date Anonymous had set to unmask the members of the domestic terrorist group.

But by midday Monday, the group was using Twitter to back away from that list.

"This account has NOT YET released any information. We believe in due diligence and will NOT recklessly involve innocent individuals," they wrote in one tweet.

That was followed a half-hour later with: "The anons at the helm of this initiative vouch ONLY for the dox list that will be released from this Twitter account on November 5 2015."

Late last month, Anonymous _ a fluid group of hacker activists with no real leadership or centralized base _ announced "Operation KKK Hoods Off 2015," claiming that it would reveal the identity of the Klan members. They gathered the information through an unsecured Twitter account associated with the group.

The group launched a similar attack in 2012 with Operation Blitzkrieg, which they say exposed neo-Nazis in the United States and Europe.


On its website, Anonymous has a countdown clock ticking down to Nov. 5, which is also the first anniversary of the grand jury decision not to prosecute Darren Wilson, the white Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown.

Brown's shooting in August 2014 triggered the Black Lives Matter movement.


But on Sunday night, names started appearing on PasteBin, a site used to share and store text and computer code. By Monday afternoon, the site had listed the names, spouses and locations of four U.S. senators and five mayors.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is not listing the names.

"I think this is pretty irresponsible to say the least," said Mark Pitcavage, director of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism. "You cannot make an accusation that someone is a member of a hate group without providing substantial evidence."

Pitcavage said he is awaiting the release of the full list, but doubts that a true list of KKK members actually exists.

"There is no one Ku Klux Klan. There are 40-odd KKK groups in the country and none of them have anywhere close to 1,000 members," Pitcavage said.
"This raises the question of what sort of list they could have gotten. Is this a list of people who follow Twitter accounts? Did they get hold of a mailing group?"

Pitcavage, who tracks individual white supremacists through the ADL, said while they have "many individual members identified, we don't have 1,000 members identified."

"So we have to wait and see what they actually have before we can evaluate this," Pitcavage said.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based organization that tracks the movement and activity of hate groups, would not comment.

(c)2015 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, Ga.)



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Nov 3 2015, 02:13 PM
The list most certain will have judges, cops, lawyers, and teachers.
This will certainly be a blockbuster if the names revealed are indeed shown to be part of the KKK.
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Oh wow. This is huge, and sickening to think about.
Thanks for posting this.

I want all of them outed.
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Nothing will happen. It's their Constitutional right to harrass black folks. (that will be the defense)
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Nov 3 2015, 02:39 PM
Nothing will happen. It's their Constitutional right to harrass black folks. (that will be the defense)
If these guys are proven to have ties with the KK, this should be political suicide for those in public office.
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White folks will come to their rescue.
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