The notorious LulzSec hacking outfit announced plans to return for one last "mystery operation" after officially disbanding at the end of last month.

The group is apparently doing this in order to help Pastebin.com restore its follower count on Twitter after the website recently switched its account.

Pastebin.com is an online collaboration and text sharing platform originally designed for developers to comment on each other's code snippets.

The site 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 it essentially allows the sharing of large quantities of text anonymously, Pastebin is also favored by hackers and hacktivists as a place where to post manifestos or dump stolen data.

Last Friday, the website's administrators obtained the @pastebin Twitter account after previously using @pastebincom. The new account 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."

In only half an hour @pastebin got over 1,000 new followers and the retweets are still going spreading at the time of writing this article. Considering that LulzSec's own Twitter account has over 285,000 followers, convincing 70,000 to follow pastebin's doesn't seem too farfetched.

It's not clear whether there's any connection between LulzSec's members and Pastebin's administrators, but it's 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.

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.