Disney stops using Slack after hack exposed company data: report
Walt Disney plans to ditch Slack as its company-wide collaboration system after a hacking organization leaked more than a terabyte of company data online, according to a report in the newsletter Status.
Disney CFO Hugh Johnston said most of the media and entertainment company’s businesses would stop using the service later this year, the report said.
According to the report, many teams have already begun the transition to streamlined, enterprise-wide collaboration tools.
Disney and Salesforce’s Slack did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
Hacker group NullBulge had published data from thousands of Slack channels at the entertainment giant, including computer code and details of unreleased projects, the Wall Street Journal reported in July.
The data includes more than 44 million messages from Disney’s Slack workplace communications tool, the WSJ reported earlier this month.
The company said in August that it was investigating the unauthorized release of more than a terabyte of data from one of its communications systems.
NullBulge compromises software supply chains by abusing code on GitHub and Hugging Face (collaborative coding platforms) and tricking users into downloading malicious files, according to SentinelOne’s threat intelligence and malware analysis team.
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