A hacking group reportedly leaked confidential information from 1000’s of Disney Slack channels.

A hacking group leaked over a terabyte of confidential information from greater than 10,000 Slack channels belonging to Disney, the Wall Avenue Journal reported on Monday. The leaked data contains discussions about advert campaigns, laptop code, particulars about unreleased tasks and dialogue about interview candidates amongst different issues. “Disney is investigating this matter,” an organization spokesperson advised the Journal.

Nullbulge calls itself a hacktivist group advocating for the rights of artists. A spokesperson for the group advised the Journal that it focused Disney because of issues concerning the firm’s dealing with of artist contracts and its strategy to generative AI. For weeks, the group teased its entry to Disney’s Slack, posting snippets of confidential data akin to attendance figures for Disneyland parks on X. Nullbulge advised the Journal that it accessed Disney’s confidential data by compromising an worker’s laptop laptop twice, together with by way of malicious software program that it buried in a videogame add-on.

For greater than a 12 months, generative AI has sparked tensions between the businesses that make and use the tech and members of the artistic neighborhood who’ve accused firms of utilizing their work to coach AI fashions with out consent or compensation.