It’s all the headlines are about these days – hacktivists taking down government and gaming networks. So we start of the week with the latest, and the group we’ve come to know and love as LulzSec is, believe it or not, quitting.

Before anyone gets the idea that the group is disbanding due to government crackdown, they wanted to make sure the public was aware that it’s out of sheer boredom, not because there is any type of legal pressure.

According to The Associated Press,  LulzSec is thinks we’re all bored of it, too.

“We're not quitting because we're afraid of law enforcement,” the LulzSec member said in a conversation with The Associated Press (News - Alert) via Skype. “The press are getting bored of us, and we're getting bored of us.”

The group has only been in the limelight for fifty days and even put out their own release on the matter.

“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,” the group wrote.

AP polled cyber security experts and found that LulzSec may be disbanding before they are caught.

“Kevin Mitnick, a security consultant and former hacker, said the group had probably concluded that the more they kept up their activities, the greater the chance that one of them would make some mistake that would enable authorities to catch them. They’ve inspired copycat groups around the globe, he noted, which means similar attacks are likely to continue even without LulzSec.”

Charles Arthur at The Guardian insisted that LulzSec had “no choice” but to disband.

“The abrupt decision of LulzSec to disband – or, at least, to appear to disband – may have caught some people by surprise: was it like a band breaking up at the peak of its powers? … The reality is that LulzSec was running out of time – and targets. As the Guardian revealed on Friday, it was a small group of between six and 10 people, with a clear leader (Sabu) and enforcer (Kayla), with a number of hangers-on. The problem for LulzSec was that, being a small group, its targets and skills were naturally limited.”

Regardless of their reasons, the circumstance is certainly different than that of Anonymous, the ones responsible for the DDoS attacks on Turkish government websites, amongst other attacks.

“Thank you for sailing with us. The breeze is fresh and the sun is setting, so now we head for the horizon,” concluded LulzSec.

Fare thee well, LulzSec. We hardly knew ye.

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