Walt Disney plans to stop using Slack as a company-wide workplace collaboration system after a hacking entity leaked more than a terabyte of company data online. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing a memo.
Disney Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston said most of the media and entertainment company’s businesses would stop using the service by the end of this year, according to the report.
According to the report, many teams have already begun transitioning to enterprise-optimized collaboration tools.
Disney and Slack did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.
Hacking group NullBulge had published data from thousands of Slack channels at the entertainment giant, including computer code and details about unreleased projects, the Journal reported in July.
The data covers more than 44 million messages from Disney’s Slack workplace communications tool, the WSJ reported earlier this month.
In August, the company said it was investigating an unauthorized release of more than a terabyte of data from one of its communications systems.
NullBulge compromises software supply chains by exploiting code on collaborative coding platforms GitHub and Hugging Face and tricking users into downloading malicious files, according to SentinelOne’s malware analysis and threat intelligence team.
