Hacking group LulzSec says it's calling it quits

• Yoorah wrote on 2011-06-26 02:29

  After a whirlwind run of headline-grabbing hacking exploits that involved the likes of Sony, the CIA, the U.S. Senate, and FBI partner Infragard, hacking group LulzSec is apparently calling it quits.
  
  The group, which cropped up on many people's radar for the first time just last month, sent a tweet late today with a link to a document on Pastebin declaring that the group's run of cybermischief was coming to an end.
  
  "It's time to say bon voyage," the statement reads. "Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind--we hope--inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love. If anything, we hope we had a microscopic impact on someone, somewhere. Anywhere." (You can read the complete text of the statement below.)
  
  The group also linked to a final cache of stolen information, which, according to a report in the International Business Times, includes data from AT&T and AOL, among others.
  
  The apparent disbanding comes just days after a 19-year-old identified as Ryan Cleary was arrested in the U.K. in connection with a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks said to have been the handiwork of LulzSec. The group denies that Cleary is one of its key associates, though it acknowledges that he hosts "one of our many legitimate chat rooms on his IRC server."
  
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  http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20074416-83/hacking-group-lulzsec-says-its-calling-it-quits/
  
  I guess someone finally got a spanking from their parents or something.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-06-26 02:39
  more like a ****ton of pissed people
• Kollin wrote on 2011-06-26 02:51
  maybe now theyll get out of their parents basement and lose their virginity. though, this is VERY VERY doubtful
• Mama wrote on 2011-06-26 03:37
  Aw, no speech from Obama with a shoe on his head?
  
  Hmm.. guess I'll edit instead of double posting:
  
  This is the reason why LulzSec quit.
  Someone hacked and posted the personal information of all attributed hackers. Here's the intro:
  
  

  To understand who/what lulzsec/gn0sis are/is you need to understand where they came from. Everything
  originates from the *chan (4chan/711chan/etc.) culture. This internet subculture is pretty much the
  dregs of the internet. It's a culture built around the anonymity of the internet. If your anonymous
  no one can find you. No one can hurt you, so your invincable. The problem with this idealogy, is it's
  on the internet. The internet by definition is not anonymous. Computers have to have attribution.
  If you trace something back far enough you can find its origins. So let's give a brief event timeline
  on how these groups got together:
  
  1. Anonymous rises up from 4chan against CoS.
  2. Anonymous starts DDoSing stuff.
  3. Various lower level hacking groups get involved.
  4. Anonymous stagnates for a while.
  5. Uprisings in the world Attract Anonymous.
  6. ProjectPM Looser Barrett Brown becomes mouth piece of Anon.
  7. Anonymous shifts focus toward "Worldy" Affairs.
  8. Aaron Barr desides he's tired of his job and targets Anon.
  9. gn0sis (Uncommon) comes out of no where and releases the Gawker data.
  10. gn0sis teams up with anon hackers with all the OP<INSERT SOMETHING HERE> crap.
  11. gn0sis (nigg, eekdacat, uncommon, kayla, lauralie) and sabu (from OP Anon ****) hack HBGary.
  12. This is where Topiary comes in. They all form lulzsec to be "hacktivists".
  13. Lulzsec (now a mix of gn0sis and opanon people) hack SONY and other stuff.
  
  The problem with Lulzsec/gn0sis's "Hacktivist" mantra is that they lack the skills to keep it going.
  As such after SONY they couldn't get into anything. So they switched their focus to just releasing
  random crap that didn't mean anything. Then they started running out of things they could hack. So
  they put out requests for people to join them. That got them a few hits, and now they've switched
  their gears again to be "ANTI-SEC". Whether or not this was an attempt at bring other groups out of
  the shadows (el8, h0no, zf0, etc), you can only speculate. But as of this writing: 6/24/2011 Sabu
  and Topiary are the only two people updating the twitter and releasing ****. Kayla is MIA. The
  gn0sis kids are gone in hiding somewhere.
  
  From what we've seen these lulzsec/gn0sis kids aren't really that good at hacking. They troll the internet
  and search for sqlinjection vulnerabilities as well as Remote File Include/Local File Include bugs. Once
  found they try to download databases or pull down usernames and passwords. Their releases have nothing
  to do with their goals or their lulz. It's purely based on whatever they find with their "google hacking"
  queries and then release it.
  
  What's funny to us is that these kids are all "Anti-Sec" yet by releasing their hacks they are forcing these
  companies to have to hire security professionals which keeps the Security Industry that they are trying to
  expose and shut down, in business. I guess they will realise that later in life when they get out of skid
  school.
  
  So we've been tracking and infiltrating these kids since the gawker hack. We have the D0x (as they call it)
  on everyone except Sabu and Kayla. First we'll go with the kid who did the gawker hack: Uncommon.
  

• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2011-06-26 18:55

  Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance

  
  Yeah sure, whatever.
• Conor wrote on 2011-06-26 19:47

  Quote from Kollin;490453:

  maybe now theyll get out of their parents basement and lose their virginity. though, this is VERY VERY doubtful

  
  i'll help if they're cute.
  but they most likely aren't. Y__________________________________________Y
• Sayoko wrote on 2011-06-26 20:56
  At least they know when to quit and keep themselves safe.
• Evasivetony wrote on 2011-06-26 20:58
  Holy crap it's finally over :blood:
  They were really starting to push it with the CIA stuff :l
• Ryoko wrote on 2011-06-26 21:04
  They grew brains now?
• Joker wrote on 2011-06-26 22:02

  Quote from Evasivetony;491261:

  Holy crap it's finally over :blood:
  They were really starting to push it with the CIA stuff :l

  
  
  

  Quote from Ryoko;491267:

  They grew brains now?

  
  
  No they got intimidated by Anonymous and other hacker groups AND the CiA AND Sony .... and any other people who hated them...
  you don't want the government AND the internet both against you ... at least they have a small enough brain to be crapping themselves..
  stupid wannabe hackers >.>
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-06-26 22:18
  their personal information got leaked by better hackers
• Adelynn wrote on 2011-06-27 00:48
  *goes back to reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo*
• Roy Mustang wrote on 2011-06-28 09:38
  Interesting. Well that was midly entertaining.
  
  I find this hilarious though, "Note: In "AT&T internal data.rar", do not open "BootableUSB/Program
  Files/WinRar/WinRar v3.71.exe", as it is malware (due to AT&T using a pirated copy
  of WinRar)."
  
  I seriously hope that AT&T didn't have a pirated copy of WinRar that was malware.
  
  This also worries me: booty/navy.mil owned.png
  
  That's the site the US Navy Uses and my brother has a navy.mil address.