Just before the group released the emails and telephone numbers, a Twitter user named "
Amped Attacks” -- who has gained past attention for
targeting websites operated by the KKK -- tweeted a link to a Pastebin article accusing several U.S. senators and mayors of being affiliated with the KKK or "racist related" groups.
Amped Attacks said he was not linked to Anonymous. “I am not involved with Anonymous or any other hacktivist group,”
he told TechCrunch on Monday. “I am my own man that acts on my own accord.”
The hacker also stood by the purported ties between the KKK and politicians.
“I worked for nine days to gather and verify all the information that was gathered before its release,” he said. “I got the information from several KKK websites when I [hacked] them and was able to dump their database. I went through many emails that was signed up with these sites and a few of the emails that sparked my interest was the ones of the politicians in question there would be no reason for them to be signed up on any KKK website unless they supported it or was involved in it.”
Anonymous appeared to distance itself from Amped Attacks and the Pastebin list in a tweet that has since been deleted.
"We wont release names w/out due diligence,"
the tweet read. "We discourage the circulation of disinfo & will not promote an unverifiable list of politicians."
