Walt Disney suffers massive hack that leaked unreleased projects and internal Slack messages

Private internal conversations from the Walt Disney company's internal Slack workplace collaboration system have been leaked online.

The hack released internal messages about Disney's ad campaigns, its studio's  proprietary technology and even interview candidates applying for jobs.

Hacking group NullBulge published data from thousands of Disney's Slack channels, according to the group's blog post Friday, which said that they had released over 1 terabyte of data from Disney.

Proprietary computer code and details about unreleased projects are among the among the internal data now public , based on the hacker group's blog post.

The leaked information includes talks on managing Disney's corporate website, software development, and job applicant evaluations, with the data spanning back to at least 2019,according to a the Wall Street Journal report on Monday

The leaked information includes talks on managing Disney's corporate website, software development, and job applicant evaluations, with the data spanning back to at least 2019, according to a the Wall Street Journal report on Monday.

'Disney is investigating this matter,' a company spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed statement. 

The NullBulge hacker collective described itself as a hacktivist group acting to promote the rights of creative artists, stating that it has selected targets like Disney to protest such corporations mistreatment of their workers. 

A spokesperson for NullBulge said via an online message, according to the Journal, that it targeted Disney specifically 'due to how it handles artist contracts, its approach to AI, and it's [sic] pretty blatant disregard for the consumer.'