(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hacker group Lulzec (http://www.lulzsecurity.com/) announced on Sunday in a farewell letter posted on PirateBay and its website that it is disbanding after 50 days of security attacks on websites around the world.
Following its retirement announcement, Lulzsec encouraged its more than 280,000 Twitter followers to follow the account of notorious hacking group, Anonymous.
The letter also pointed supporters to one last data dump with links to compromised data from a slew of companies and government agencies, including AT&T, AOL, Battlefield Heroes, the FBI, NATO, and the Navy.
The files include internal memos, video game user details, website log ins and various miscellaneous files.
The largest files contain AT&T's internal documents and the IP addresses of internal corporate networks from previous hacking targets like The Walt Disney Company, Sony, Qwest Communications and EMI.
Those individuals interested in viewing this data should be warned that a version of the files that was uploaded to The Pirate Bay contained a trojan, but was quickly removed. Anonymous tweeted that the trojan as "not from @lulzsec; material uploaded as received."
Lulzsec did not provide any reasons as to why they were retiring from the hacking game. However, many suspect that it is because rival group TeamPoison has allegedly threatened to expose Lulzec members.
Others say the group closed shop to avoid any possible arrests following last week's arrest of Ryan Cleary in connection to the PlayStation Network hack
"Bon voyage," wrote Lulzsec in the farewell letter. "Our planned 50 day cruise has expired... 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. All to selflessly entertain others - vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy."
In the past 50 days, LulzSec breached the PBS website and leaked private information belonging to Arizona law enforcement.
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