Violet Blue reports:
Two Twitter accounts belonging to American racial segregation org Ku Klux Klan, @KuKluxKlanUSA and @YourKKKCentral, have been seized by Anonymous as part of the hacker-activist entity’s new campaign, #OpKKK.
At 6:31pm PST Anonymous said it has knocked the website belonging to “Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” — the group responsible for the Ferguson threats — offline.
TANGO DOWN – http://t.co/5GYg8JrUiC #OpKKK #HoodsOff
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) November 17, 2014
ZDNet has also received an unconfirmed statement that Anonymous has compromised KKK member email accounts, and a phone harassment campaign is being conducted on KKK members. The message is in full at the end of this article.
Read more on ZDNet.
As of this afternoon, the hackers still appear to be in control of the Twitter accounts.