Disney told employees on Thursday that it will no longer use Slack for internal communication after a hack earlier this year allowed cybercriminals to expose financial materials, computer codes, and o

Disney CFO Hugh Johnston said most of the media and entertainment company's businesses would stop using Slack as a workplace collaboration tool later this year

In an internal memo shared this week, CFO Hugh Johnston says most Disney teams will move away from Slack by the end of this year.

Walt Disney Company will ditch Slack after a hacking group breached its internal communication system in July and leaked confidential company data, according to a report.

Hacktivist” group NullBulge didn’t like that Disney uses AI to generate some of its artwork, so it leaked a whopping 1.1 terabytes of data from the entertainment giant’s internal Slack archive in July.

Walt Disney plans to transition away from its use of Slack as a companywide workplace collaboration system, after a hacking entity leaked online more than a terabyte of company data, according to a report in the Status media newsletter.

Learn more about why Disney has decided to ditch Slack, with plans to transition away from the team communication platform by the start of 2025.

Disney said it was investigating an unauthorized release of over a terabyte of data from one of its communication systems.

A hacking group said it gained access to Disney's Slack channels over the summer, which led to leaks. Now, Disney is transitioning away from Slack.

The company said in a memo that most of its businesses would stop using the tool by the end of this year.

The entertainment company reportedly issued a memo to staff that a migration away from Slack’s collaboration application will conclude next year. The move follows a high-profile data breach that led to the publication of 44 million Slack messages and tens of thousands of documents by a hacking group.