Disney leak included personal information of some cruise line employees: report

The information, which was leaked from the Walt Disney Company earlier this summer, includes cruise line employee passport numbers, revenue generated by Disney+ and Genie+ (now Lightning Lane), and guest data.

In July, Nullbulge, a self-proclaimed Russian hacker-activist group fighting for artists’ rights, posted 1.1 terabytes of Disney data from the media giant’s internal Slack channels online.

Slack is a business messaging app that many large companies are using, especially as work has shifted to hybrid and remote roles in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The software can be used on computers and smartphones.

“Consider giving up literally every bit of personal information you have, from logins to credit cards to SSNs, as a warning to people in the future,” the Nullbulge website says of the Disney leak.

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The hacker-activist group claims they only hack “if you commit one of our sins,” which includes promoting cryptocurrencies, creating art using artificial intelligence, and any form of theft.

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Disney did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment, but a spokesperson previously told The Wall Street Journal that it declines to comment on “unverified information that The Wall Street Journal allegedly obtained through the illegal activity of a bad actor.”

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A spreadsheet for Genie+, the premium theme park pass introduced in 2021, showed that Walt Disney World alone had pretax revenue of $724 million between October 2021 and June 2024, the WSJ reported.

Internal spreadsheets also show that Disney+, the company’s entertainment streaming app, generated more than $2.4 billion in the first quarter of the year.

The WSJ reports that the Slack channels also revealed passport numbers, visa details, places of birth, residential addresses and current assignments of Disney employees aboard the company’s cruises.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Disney told investors in regulatory filings in August that it was investigating the leak, but the incident had no material impact on its business or financial results and the company did not expect it to.

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According to the WSJ, Nullbulge accessed the data through the hacked computer of a software development manager.

“Businesses are being breached all the time, especially with data theft from cloud platforms and software as a service,” Roei Sherman, field technical director at Mitiga Security, told Wired tech magazine.

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