The hacker group Anonymous is nearly synonymous with attacks and data leaks, but while they tend to strike fear into a few people, the truth is, if you aren’t doing anything wrong then don’t be scared.
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Lexington Mayor Jim Gray responded forcefully and unequivocally Monday morning after he and several other high-profile US officials were tied to the Ku Klux Klan in an explosive but unattributed posting by the shadowy hacker group Anonymous. Anonymous hackers have so far publishedfour separate listings on text-sharing website Pastebin, including57 phone numbers and 23 email addresses.
View the full lists here.
According to the IBT, Anonymous has sparred with the KKK for about a year, ever since a local KKK chapter threatened to use “lethal force” against activists in Ferguson, Missouri, following Michael Brown’s death in August 2014.
The worldwide Business Times and FOX 2 say the member details have not been verified.
No other N.J.-based phone numbers appeared on the list.
Twitter user Amped Attacks, who began attacking racist websites last month, took credit for posting the list, claiming he created it after hacking KKK websites. The group will kick off their social media campaign against the White supremacists with the hashtag #HoodsOff on November 4. “And on the 5th we shall release more than 1000 Ku Klux Klan members Names and websites, new and old”. They gathered the information through an unsecured Twitter account associated with the group.
But this past week, Anonymous said it was planning to resurrect its online onslaught sometime in November, almost one year since the collective first declared cyber war on the Klan.
Sen Dan Coats (R-IN) reportedly called them “baseless Internet garbage of the worst kind”. “Senator Isakson has never been affiliated with the KKK”, the statement reads. “Most of the politicians included on the list-four Republican senators, four Democratic mayors and a Republican mayor-have denied the claims”, Newsweek just reported.
“In short, I don’t think the KKK would want anything to do with me”, Rogero wrote.
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This allegation is false, insulting and ridiculous. Since the postings went online, representatives for Anonymous – the hacktivist group believed to be responsible – have distanced themselves from the allegations.
