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LulzSec disbanding due to boredom
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 28 June 2011
An online group which targeted, among others, various Sony businesses with some of those trendy Distributed Denial Of Service attacks, has said it has shut itself down not because the authorities are closing in on its members, but because they’ve got bored of the whole DDoS thing.
After an online announcement that they were disbanding, a member of the informal group of cyber-attackers LulzSec told the Associated Press: “We’re not quitting because we’re afraid of law enforcement. The press are getting bored of us, and we’re getting bored of us”. It has to be said computer hackers are in the main pretty boring. Apart from Matthew Broderick in ‘War Games’, obviously.
As previously reported, Essex geek Ryan Cleary, who was arrested last week for targeting various websites with DDoS attacks, including record label trade bodies the BPI and IFPI, was linked to the LulzSec community, though they denied he was part of their group.
