/spandiv style="float:right;width:305px;display:inline;font-size:13px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;line-height:16px;" img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/53265000/jpg/_53265517_e15e421a-14c7-4ee3-b4d1-c8b94b31e078.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="Lulz Security logo, Lulz Security"span style="width:304px;"The Lulz Security group has used Twitter to draw further attention to itself/span /div div class="story-feature related narrow"Related Stories/div p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1"A hacker group that has attacked several high-profile websites over the last two months has announced that it is disbanding./p pLulz Security made its announcement through its Twitter account, giving no reason for its decision./p pa href="http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6495523/50_Days_of_Lulz"A statement published on a file-sharing website/a said that its "planned 50-day cruise has expired"./p pThe group leapt to prominence by carrying out attacks on companies such as Sony and Nintendo./p pBroadcasters Fox and PBS, the CIA, and the United States Senate have also been cyber-attacked by the group./p pAs a parting shot, the group released a selection of documents apparently including confidential material taken from the Arizona police department and US telecoms giant ATamp;T. /p pCorrespondents say LulzSec's announcement could be a sign that its members are nervous because of recent police investigations, including the arrest of a British man suspected of links to the group, and efforts by rival hackers to expose them./pdiv style="width:280px;float:right;clear:right;font-size:13px;text-align:right;margin-right:20px;"blockquote style="font-weight:bold;font-size:16px;"p class="first-child"ldquo;Please don't stop - together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserverdquo;/p/blockquotespan class="quote-credit"LulzSec statement/span /div p id="story_continues_2"The group's identities remain anonymous and it has not been possible to contact its members directly to confirm its statement./p pThe statement said that "our crew of six wishes you a happy 2011"./p p"So with those last thoughts, it's time to say bon voyage," it added. /p p"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."/p pBut LulzSec urged its supporters to carry on./p p"We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us," the statement said./p p"Please don't stop. Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve."/p pThe group had previously told the BBC's Newsnight programme that it wanted to target the "higher ups" who write the rules and "bring them down a few notches"./p pIn an online Qamp;A, the hacker known as Whirlpool, who described himself as "captain of the Lulz Boat", said that while the group had begun hacking "for laughs" - for which the word "lulz" is cyber-slang - it evolved into "politically motivated ethical hacking"./p pAnd in an interview with the Associated Press on Friday, a LulzSec member said the group had at least five gigabytes of "government and law enforcement data" from around the world, which it planned to release in the next three weeks. /p pRyan Cleary, 19, from Wickford, Essex, was arrested as part of a Scotland Yard and FBI probe into LulzSec and charged with hacking the website of the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency. /ppThis article is from the a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk" title="Link to BBC News"BBC News website/a. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4cMvR45Sc8_iIUnwTdYkZ_kCfPc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4cMvR45Sc8_iIUnwTdYkZ_kCfPc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4cMvR45Sc8_iIUnwTdYkZ_kCfPc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4cMvR45Sc8_iIUnwTdYkZ_kCfPc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BbcNewsTechnologyFullFeed/~4/NaecHLjy-0Y" height="1" width="1"/