Disney to shift from Slack due to security breach, planning transition to Microsoft Teams

A team known as “Nullbulge” released a 1.1 TB document containing information sourced from Disney’s internal Slack archive in July. This encompassed 44 million communications among Disney employees, 18,800 data grids, and a minimum of 13,000 PDF documents, as outlined in a news piece by the Wall Street Journal from earlier this month. The data shared publicly consisted of insights on Disney’s financial well-being and tactics, alongside personally identifiable data of certain employees and clients.

The violation primarily happened subsequent to a system owned by a software development supervisor at Disney being compromised. Subsequently, data was extracted from accessible and restricted Slack channels; however, the private messages remained untouched, as stated by the Journal.

Slack is presently under the ownership of commercial software provider Salesforce after a $28 billion purchase in 2020. During the organization’s Dreamforce session this week, Salesforce’s CEO Marc Benioff emphasized Disney’s ongoing utilization of Salesforce solutions throughout its functions, including among Disney retail personnel and customer support representatives.

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