The Walt Disney Company is facing a massive class action lawsuit over a massive data breach in July in which hackers stole more than 1.1TB of customers' personal data.
The suit is submitted On October 3, Scott Mergel filed a lawsuit against Disney and Disney California Adventure in Los Angeles Superior Court. Los Angeles Times.
The paper notes that thousands of Disney and former Disney customers have signed on to the lawsuit, all of whom are holding Disney accountable for the loss of “highly sensitive personal information.”
The breach saw Russia-based hacktivist group Nullbulge discover a way to access Slack, Disney's internal employee communications and workflow system, allowing the hacktivist group to access data. occurred later. The group also reportedly accessed Disney cruise line information, including cruise crew members' passport numbers and other personal information.
Customers also say Disney did not tell them the full extent of the breach and they have no idea how much personal information was stolen.
Other information stolen The information provided by the hackers includes detailed revenue details for Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu. wall street journal Reported in July.
hollywood reporter I will write “The leaked information includes a large amount of internal communications, images, login information, studio information, ad campaigns, and other information from Disney, almost all from Slack, a communications platform owned by Salesforce. I think there is.”
The hacking incident could not have come at a worse time for Disney, which is undergoing a series of layoffs and consolidation of departments and branches. Just last month, hundreds of office workers found jobs on the chopping block.
The company also experienced significant revenue declines. The company's theme park situation is so bad that Disney stock was downgraded on news of park couple losses with the still-struggling streaming service.
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