Disney appears to have been hacked.
The entertainment giant is the apparent victim of a cybersecurity incident, with hackers claiming to posses more than one terabyte of data from the company.
“Disney is investigating this matter,” a spokesperson tells The Hollywood Reporter.
The hacktivist group “Nullbulge” is claiming responsibility for the hack. The group describes itself as “a hacktivist group protecting artists’ rights and ensuring fair compensation for their work.”
The leaked information includes a trove of internal communications from Disney, images, logins, studio information, ad campaigns and other information, almost all appearing to be from the Salesforce-owned communications platform Slack.
The incident is the latest in a string of cyberattacks that have targeted media and telecom companies this year. In the spring, Roku said that more than half a million accounts were compromised in a data breach.
In may, Ticketmaster owner Live Nation said that it had been the victim of an attack, with “criminal threat actors” selling user data on the dark web.
And earlier this month AT&T disclosed an astonishing incident in which “nearly all” of its wireless customers had their call and text records obtained (though importantly the content of the messages was not breached).
Both the Ticketmaster and AT&T hacks involved a third-party cloud provider called Snowflake, though there is no indication as of now that the Disney hack is connected.
In the case of Nullbulge, the hacktivist group told The Wall Street Journal it targeted Disney “due to how it handles artist contracts, its approach to AI, and it’s [sic] pretty blatant disregard for the consumer.”
