The good news - if there is such a thing - is that the leadership is reforming for just one more project, namely to help the Pastebin service recover its Twitter followers after the Twitter microblogging service recently switched the Pastebin account.
According to the Softpedia newswire, Pastebin.com is an online collaboration and text sharing platform originally designed for developers to comment on each other's code snippets.
The site, adds the East European newswire, "allows entries to be submitted anonymously or using an account, to be automatically erased after a certain period of time, to be public or private and to have the text highlighted according to a particular programming language's syntax."
Because the site allows the sharing of large quantities of text anonymously, Pastebin is also favoured by hackers and hacktivists as a place where to post manifestoes or dump stolen data.
Last Friday, says Softpedia, the website's administrators obtained the @pastebin Twitter account after previously using @pastebincom.
The new account, the newswire asserts, had around 4,500 followers at the time when LulzSec tweeted: "If @pastebin reaches 75,000 followers we'll engage in a mystery operation that will cause mayhem."
Following this announcement, @pastebin reportedly secure more than 1,000 new followers and, Infosecurity notes, the retweets have been whirring away steadily over the last 24 hours.
As the newswire observes: "Considering that LulzSec's own Twitter account has over 285,000 followers, convincing 70,000 to follow pastebin's doesn't seem too far-fetched."
Softpedia's editor Lucian Constantin reports that it is not clear whether there is a connection between LulzSec's members and Pastebin's administrators, but it is clear that the site has a special meaning to the hacking group.
"This was the first official tweet from the hackers since they dissolved back into Anonymous almost half a month ago", he said in his report.
"It's worth mentioning that LulzSec previously promoted other services or companies that its members like, such as CloudFlare, Nintendo or Sega. It remains to be seen if the group will come out of retirement for Pastebin", he adds.