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If there is one thing that Disney is really good at, it’s keeping things under wraps. Whether it be the stars of its newest Marvel movie, plans for its theme parks, or villains from its newest animated film, if Disney doesn’t want anyone to know, they won’t. At least that was the case until recently — when the Mouse House experienced a devastating hack.
Shortly after news of the hack became public, a hacker group called Nullbulge claimed that they were the ones who broke into Disney’s computer systems. The group calls itself “hacktivists,” dedicated to protecting the rights of artists and making sure they are paid what they deserve.
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After the hacktivist group took responsibility for the massive data breach, they also revealed that they had gained access to Disney’s internal Slack Channel. Slack is a cloud-based messaging service that many companies use as a way for their employees to communicate with each other. Employees can have private chats, video chats, share documents, and more.
In part, Nullbulge’s message read:
DISNEY INTERNAL SLACK 1.1TiB of data, almost 10,000 channels, every message and file possible, dumped. Unreleased projects, raw images and code, some logins, links to internal api/web pages, and more! Have fun sifting through it, there is a lot there.
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But that is not all.
The group also claimed that someone who worked within Disney helped them get into the servers and get the information they needed. They called out the employee by name, but since there is no evidence to support their claim, we have redacted the name.
The group was not happy with the accused employee’s decision to withdraw from helping them, so they threatened to release all the Disney employees’ information.
We tried to hold off until we got deeper in, but our inside man got cold feet and kicked us out! I thought we had something special [Employee Name] Consider the dropping of literally every bit of personal info you have, from logins to credit cards to SSN, as a warning for people in the future.
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The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the hack, but they could not verify exactly how much information Nullbulge had stolen. However, they were able to review some of the documents, which went back years.
The publication said material it viewed went back to 2019 and included conversations about maintaining Disney’s corporate website, assessments of candidates for employment, programs for emerging leaders within ESPN, and photos of employees’ dogs. Nullbulge has posted screenshots of the documents online.
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It should be noted that the person Nullbulge accused did have a professional LinkedIn page, on which he stated that he worked in tech at the company for almost nine years. Disney Dining reviewed the page and confirmed his information.
However, since news of the hack first broke, his LinkedIn page has been deleted.
Do you think Disney is investigating the employee accused of helping with the massive hack? Let us know in the comments.
