The phone number is a fax line for the Disability Services department at Educational Testing Service
Activist from a group known as Anonymous in this Nov. 5, 2013, file photo. (Chris Post | For lehighvalleylive.com) MERCER COUNTY - A fax line for a Lawrence Township-based Educational Testing Service is among a list of phone numbers released Monday that online activist group "Anonymous'' says are associated with the Ku Klux Klan.
The phone number is a fax line for the Disability Services Department at Educational Testing Service, according to the company's website. ETS, which has offices in Princeton and Ewing, designs and administers standardized tests, such as the GRE for Master's students and the Praxis test for teachers.
Tom Ewing, a spokesman for ETS, verified that the phone number was an ETS number, and said he was unsure why it would have been published by Anonymous.
"Obviously, the number was printed in error,'' Ewing said. "The number is used by our Disability Department, which helps students with disabilities arrange for accommodations for their testing.''
No other N.J.-based phone numbers appeared on the list.
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Anonymous warned last week that they intended to release up to 1,000 names of alleged KKK members as part of its cyber war against the white supremacist group.
By early afternoon on Monday, there were 44 phone numbers and several dozen email addresses listed through the text-sharing site Pastebin.
Anonymous, in a statement, said that while the Klan had a right to free speech, it had no right to promote violence.
"You are terrorists that hide your identities beneath sheets and infiltrate society on every level,'' the statement said. "The privacy of the Ku Klux Klan no longer exists in cyberspace."
After members of the Klan threatened to attack police protesters in Ferguson, Mo., last year following protests associated with the shooting death of Michael Brown, Anonymous outed several Klansman and shut down the group's Twitter account and related websites.
The KKK counts 8,000 members in 40 states, including one group in New Jersey based out of Trenton, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
New Jersey was home to 40 hate groups in 2014, the fourth most in the country, according to the Law Center.
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