Private internal conversations from the Walt Disney Company’s internal work collaboration system Slack have been leaked online.
The hack spread internal messages about Disney’s advertising campaigns, its own studio technology and even interviews with job applicants.
Hacking group NullBulge published data from thousands of Disney Slack channels, according to the group’s blog post Friday, which said it had published more than 1 terabyte of Disney data.
Among the internal data now public are proprietary computer code and details about unpublished projects, according to the hacking group’s blog post.
The leaked information includes conversations about Disney’s corporate website management, software development and job applicant screenings, and the data dates back to at least 2019, according to a Wall Street Journal report Monday.
The leaked information includes conversations about Disney’s corporate website management, software development and job applicant screenings, and the data dates back to at least 2019, according to a report. Wall Street Journal report on Monday.
“Disney is investigating this matter,” a company spokesman told Reuters in an emailed statement.
Hacking collective NullBulge described itself as a hacktivist group that acts to promote the rights of creative artists, saying it has singled out targets such as Disney to protest the corporations’ mistreatment of their workers.
A NullBulge spokesperson said via an online message, according to the Journal, that they specifically targeted Disney “because of how it handles artist contracts, its approach to AI, and its (sic) pretty blatant disregard for the consumer.”
