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 media giant Disney’s internal Slack channels onto 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 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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Disney did not immediately respond to Fox Business’ request for comment, but a spokesperson previously told The Wall Street Journal that the company would not comment on “unconfirmed information that purportedly came to The Wall Street Journal as a result of nefarious conduct.”
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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.
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.
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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 breached all the time, especially data theft from cloud and software-as-a-service platforms,” Roei Sherman, field CTO at Mitiga Security, told tech magazine Wired.