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Information leaked from The Walt Disney Company earlier this summer included cruise line employee passport numbers, revenue from Disney+ and Genie+ (now Lightning Lane), and guest data.
In July, a Russia-based group of self-described artists' rights hacktivists known as “Nullbulge” uploaded 1.1 terabytes of data from an internal Slack channel at media giant Disney to the internet.
Slack is a business messaging app used by many major companies, especially as work has shifted to hybrid and remote roles following the COVID-19 pandemic. The software is available for computers and smartphones.
“Consider the Disney breach a warning to future people who share literally any kind of personal information, from login details to credit cards to Social Security numbers,” the Nullbulge website said.
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The Walt Disney Company logo will appear on your smartphone screen. (Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The hacktivist group said they would only hack “if we committed a crime,” which could include promoting cryptocurrency, creating AI artwork, or any form of theft.
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| Dis | The Walt Disney Company | 89.13 | -1.25 |
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Disney did not immediately respond to Fox Business' request for comment, but a spokesperson previously said: The Wall Street Journal The company declined to comment on “unconfirmed information that The Wall Street Journal allegedly received as a result of illegal actions by malicious actors.”
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Slack is a business messaging app used by many major companies. The software is available for computers and smartphones. (Thomas Truschel/Photothek via Getty Images/Getty Images)
A spreadsheet for Genie+, the premium park pass launched in 2021, showed that Walt Disney World alone will generate $724 million in pre-tax revenue between October 2021 and June 2024, the WSJ reported.
The company's streaming entertainment app, Disney+, generated more than $2.4 billion in revenue in the first quarter of this year, according to an internal spreadsheet.
In this photo illustration, the Disney+ logo appears on a smartphone screen next to a login screen with email, password, and sign-in. (Rafael Enrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The Slack channel also revealed the passport numbers, visa details, birthplaces, addresses and current postings of Disney staff aboard the company's cruise ships, according to the WSJ.
Disney told investors in a regulatory filing in August that it was investigating the breach but that it had not had a material impact on its operations or financial performance and the company did not expect it to have any, according to the Journal.
Information leaked from The Walt Disney Company earlier this summer included cruise line employee passport numbers, revenue from Disney+ and Genie+ (now Lightning Lane), and guest data. (Horacio Villalobos #Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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According to the WSJ, Nurbulji's data was accessed through a compromised computer belonging to a software development manager.
“Businesses are constantly being breached, especially data theft from cloud and software-as-a-service platforms,” said Roy Sharman, field CTO at Mitiga Security. Wired Technology Magazine.
