Disney plans to ditch Slack over massive 1TB data breach

19/09/2024 | Reuters

Disney is planning to move away from using Salesforce-owned Slack as its companywide workplace collaboration system. The move comes after a hacking group NullBulge leaked over a terabyte of company data online in July, including computer code and details about unreleased projects contained in 44 million messages. According to a report in the Status media newsletter, Disney's CFO Hugh Johnston stated that most of the company's businesses would cease using the service later this year, and teams have already begun transitioning to streamlined enterprise-wide collaboration tools.

Neither Disney nor Slack responded to Reuters requests for comment.

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