Sept 19 (Askume) – Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) has loosened controls on the company after a hacking unit leaked more than a terabyte of company data online, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing a memo.
According to the report, Disney’s Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston said most of the media and entertainment company’s businesses will stop using the service by the end of this year.
According to the report, many teams are already turning to streamlined enterprise-wide collaboration tools.
Slack, owned by Disney and Salesforce (CRM.N), did not immediately respond to Askume requests for comment.
The Wall Street Journal reported in July that hacker group Nullbullz published data from thousands of the entertainment giant’s Slack channels, including computer code and details of unreleased projects.
This data was reported by The Wall Street Journal earlier this month.Based on over 44 million messages collected from Disney’s Slack workplace communication tool .
The company said in August that it was investigating an unauthorized leak of more than 1 terabyte of data from one of its communications systems.
SentinelOne’s threat intelligence and malware analysis team said NullBulz leveraged code on GitHub and the Hugging Face collaborative coding platform to compromise the software supply chain and trick users into downloading malicious files.
