Hacktivist organization Anonymous kept good on their promise to release the names of alleged Ku Klux Klan members and produced a list of over 400 names.
The list was published on the site Pastebin Thursday night after the group reportedly gained access to a Twitter account related to a white supremacist group. The names were published as part of the groups Operation KKK campaign launched last year.
The campaign was launched on Twitter with the hashtag #OpKKK in response to the white supremacists groups violent threats against Ferguson protesters.
Alongside many of the names published are email addresses, links to Facebook and google plus pages and other information. The group has been working on gathering information for the list over a 12-month period.
As part of a lengthy message posted on Pastebin Anonymous states regarding Operation KKK, "We hope Operation KKK will, in part, spark a bit of constructive dialogue about race, racism, racial terror and freedom of expression, across group lines. Public discourse about these topics can be honest, messy, snarky, offensive, humbling, infuriating, productive, and serious all at once. The reality is that racism usually does NOT wear a hood but it does permeate our culture on every level. Part of the reason we have taken the hoods off of these individuals is not because of their identities, but because of what their hoods symbolize to us in our broader society."
Anonymous finished the message by stating, "We consider this data dump as a form of resistance against the violence and intimidation tactics leveraged against the public by various members of Ku Klux Klan groups throughout history."