As promised, the hacker collective known as Anonymous revealed to the public a list of hundreds of members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) by name.

Last Sunday, the online hacktivist group issued a press release announcing its plan to expose the list of names gathered from various Twitter accounts it claims to have hacked as part of its "HoodsOff 2015" campaign. The group then released on Pastebin over 350 names of people it claims are members or sympathizers of the Ku Klux Klan Thursday night. However, many of the names released are people who have already publicized their membership with the Klan.

For instance, one such Klan member named James Pratt has a Twitter bio that reads, "A veteran, a daddy, a Klansman of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan."

Frank Ancona, whose name was also included in the release, has appeared on TV representing as an imperial wizard of the KKK's Traditionalist American Knights (TAK), reports the Guardian. 

Meanwhile, Greg Ferrell, whose name appears in the Pastebin file, said he took pride in being part of the white supremacy group.

"I'm not ashamed of being associated with it TAK," he wrote on Facebook. "I'm proud to be a KKK member of the TAK so let anonymous do their thing."

Also included in the data dump was a statement explaining Anonymous' motives for the release.

"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," the group said.

"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. 

"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."