Internal data of the Walt Disney Company was leaked onto the Internet, published by the Nullbulge hacker group, which managed to gain access to the company’s internal system, built on the instant messaging and collaboration platform Slack.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, internal information of the Walt Disney Company, including discussions of advertising campaigns, studio technologies, etc., has become publicly available. The leaked files, reviewed by the WSJ, include discussions about support for Disney’s corporate website, messages about software development, conversations about job evaluations, programming for the ESPN cable channel, and photos of employees’ dogs, with data relating to at least , by 2019.
In turn, Nullbulge said in a blog post that it had published more than 1 TB of data from thousands of Walt Disney Company channels on Slack, including details of unreleased projects, raw images and computer code. The hacktivist group says its goal is to “protect the rights of artists and ensure fair compensation for their work.”
The Slack messenger is widely used in large companies for communicating between employees on strategic projects, holding meetings, etc. In response to a Reuters request for comment on the leak, the company said that it was now investigating the incident.