Hacker group claims it leaked internal Disney Slack messages over AI concerns

Ramishah Maruf, CNN

New York (CNN) — An activistic hacking group claimed it leaked thousands of Disney’s soul messaging channels, which included accusation astir unreleased projects, earthy images machine codes and immoderate logins.

Nullbulge, nan “hacktivist group,” claimed work for nan breach and said they leaked a gigantic, astir 1.2 terabytes of accusation from Disney’s Slack, a communications software. In an email connected Monday to CNN, nan group claimed it gained entree done “a man pinch Slack entree who had cookies.” The email besides claimed nan group was based retired of Russia.

“The personification was alert we had them, he tried to footwear america retired erstwhile but fto america locomotion correct backmost successful earlier nan 2nd time,” nan email said.

CNN could not independently verify nan claims.

In a connection Monday, Disney said it “is investigating this matter.” Disney’s intermezo monolith stretches crossed a immense scope of divisions and companies, from ESPN to Hulu and Disney+ to ABC News.

The group besides stated that it wants to protect artists’ authorities and compensation for their work, particularly successful nan property of artificial intelligence.

“Disney was our target owed to really it handles creator contracts, its attack to AI, and its beautiful blatant disregard for nan consumer,” nan hacking group said complete email.

Nullbulge had been hinting astatine nan elephantine merchandise for nan past fewer weeks connected its societal media. For example, successful June nan group posted connected X what appears to beryllium visitor, booking and gross information astatine Disneyland Paris.

Artificial intelligence was a awesome sticking constituent successful negotiations during Screen Actors Guild and nan Writers Guild of America strikes. Writers are concerned ChatGPT tin constitute scripts alternatively of them, while actors fearfulness that computer-generated imagery, aliases CGI, tin wholly switch them.

The hackers said they leaked nan information because making demands of Disney would beryllium futile.

“If we said ‘Hello Disney, we person each your slack data’ they would instantly fastener down and effort to return america out. In a duel, you amended occurrence first,” nan email said.

In 2014, a megahack astatine Sony Pictures linked to North Korea led to an world crisis, exposing emails from institution executives, personage aliases, societal information numbers and full movie scripts.

CNN’s Erika Tulfo and Jon Passantino contributed to this report.

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