A couple of days ago, HackRead, people on X and Reddit, reported that a hacking group called NullBulge was able to get over 1 TB of data from Disney via Slack. This was reported there before the Wall Street Journal and every other mainstream media outlet picked it up.
I only mention who covered it first because the main stream news didn’t credit them, but I digress.
The news of the leak was posted on Friday, July 12, 2024, on the hacker platform Breach Forums.
The information includes almost 10,000 channels with messages, codes, web pages, ad campaigns, interview candidates, unreleased projects, studio technology, concept art for Disney games, and a file full of Cast Member and employee cat videos, (which sounds adorable.)
Some of the data goes back as far as 2019.
It seems that an “inside man” got them into the system, then “got cold feet” and kicked the NullBulge hackers out before they could get more data. They have since released the person’s name in retaliation.
NullBulge told the Wall Street Journal that they did this to Disney “due to how it handles artist contracts, its approach to AI, and it’s pretty blatant disregard for the consumer.”
This comes after the data breach happened to Disney via Club Penguin hackers and Disney’s Confluence Server that happened last month. That breach only contained 2.3 GB of data.
Disney is investigating.
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