Hacker group LulzSec may have disbanded for fear of exposure by other hackers
LulzSec, the hacker group that raved on Twitter for 50 days about its exploits, may have been scared into disbanding by another hacker group that claims to have exposed its members’ identities and by law enforcement officials who have been stepping up their inquiry into the attacks.
LulzSec, which since early May has claimed to have attacked the websites and systems of the CIA, the FBI, the U.S. Senate, Arizona police and a British police agency, among others, said over the weekend that it was done. It had also attacked Sony, Fox, PBS, Nintendo, various porn websites and multiple video game servers and websites.
Immediately after LulzSec’s announcement, a group calling itself the A-Team published a document online that it claimed listed the identities of most of LulzSec’s members as well as some of their associates and relatives. The document, which included phone numbers, addresses and Facebook profiles, listed the full names of seven individuals and the first names of two others as well as Internet identifiers for a 10th person.
“We think that with these kid’s exposed…it will eventually die off,” the group said. It did not say anything more about itself other than that it had hacked LulzSec.
LulzSec did not respond through its Twitter account, despite a history of addressing claims similar to those. Some of the information in the A-Team’s document is similar to information that was revealed in previous documents by another hacker group and LulzSec itself.
The A-Team invited law enforcement agencies to contact it by email if they wanted to see the “raw logs” as part of their investigation.
LulzSec’s sudden move came only days after the arrest of a teenager in Britain who has been connected to one of the group’s attacks. LulzSec said it had planned all along to end after 50 days, but just last week the group had said it would release classified documents on a weekly basis.
