Lulzsec calls it quits!
Lulzsec to go gently into that good night
According to Wall Street Digital the hacker group LulzSec says that after 50 days, it’s done causing trouble on the Internet. In an announcement posted to Pastebin and linked from its Twitter feed, the group said that after 50 days, the latest batch of files it released via BitTorrent would be its last.
“For the past 50 days we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could,” the group wrote in its statement.
The collection of files it released — LulzSec’s “booty” — which I downloaded, contained a mish-mash of text and images intended to demonstrate, one more time, its hacking prowess. Among the collection was an image of a US Navy web site civilian jobs board that had been defaced with 11 entries reading “PabloEscobar AntiSec.”
Another file, entitled “Office Networks of Corporations” is a text file containing what appear to be the IP addresses of internal corporate networks belonging to several media and telecommunications companies. Among those on the list are The Walt Disney Company, Sony — a favorite LulzSec target — Qwest Communications and The EMI Group, along with AT&T and others.
By far the biggest file — clocking in at more than 600 megabytes — was a folder containing what appeared to be internal documents taken from AT&T. They include what seem to be planning documents, timelines, internal memos related to testing and other documents concerning the construction of AT&T’s LTE wireless network.
So why is LulzSec calling it quits now at the height of its infamy? The heat is clearly on. At least one person, a 19-year old named Ryan Cleary, said to have ties to the group has been arrested in the UK, and assuming the person they’ve arrested is guilty as charged, chances are that when the pressure is on, he’ll give Scotland Yard as much evidence as he can in exchange for a lighter sentence.
The members of the group are expected to fade quietly into the background, having forever established their reputation as some serious hackers.
What are your thoughts on the Lulzsec hackers?
Having one of their “alleged” co-conspirators arrested seems to have put the willies up them. Obviouly they don’t have the resources of WikiLeaks or Anonymous.
Looks like they don’t have the staying power of Anonymous.