Nullbulge, a hacktivist group critical of AI art, leaks Disney's alleged Slack messages over “how it handles artist contracts” and AI; Disney is investigating
‘Hacktivist’ group critical of AI-generated art says it has obtained swaths of data from Disney's Slack channels, some of which it has published online
Wall Street Journal
Context & Ripple Effects
The alleged disclosure puts Disney’s internal treatment of creative work and AI under scrutiny at an early point in a longer conflict over how entertainment companies deploy generative tools. Later coverage shows Disney balancing filmmaking uses of AI with character protection, legal uncertainty and labor concerns in its AI filmmaking deliberations.
The episode also precedes Disney’s more overt efforts to control how AI companies use its intellectual property, including its push to limit AI companies’ access to Disney IP. That makes the claimed Slack material relevant not just as a security incident, but as potential evidence of how the company navigates artists’ interests internally.
First-order effects
Disney must investigate the claimed compromise, assess what Slack material was exposed and manage the immediate confidentiality and employee-relations fallout.
Nullbulge’s publication, if authentic, gives its anti-AI-art campaign a vehicle to challenge Disney’s handling of artist contracts and AI decisions.
Second-order effects
Creative workers, unions and rights holders may use any credible disclosures to press Disney for clearer commitments on AI use, contracting and protections for human-made work.
The incident raises the cost of treating internal collaboration systems as routine operational tools when AI policy and talent terms are being negotiated; media companies may tighten access and retention practices around those discussions.
Third-order effects
As generative AI becomes part of content production, disputes over creative labor and IP are likely to be fought through corporate governance and information-security channels as well as licensing and litigation.
If similar disclosures recur, studios’ ability to commercialize AI will depend increasingly on whether their internal policies can withstand scrutiny from creators, partners and the public.
The trend: This is one data point in the collision between AI content commercialization and creators’ demands for control, compensation and transparency.
#DisneySlackLeak #Disney has had their entire dev slack dumped. 1.1TiB of files and chat messages. Anything we could get our hands on, we downloaded and packaged up. Want to see what goes on behind the doors? go grab it. https://nullbulge.se/ [image]
What could be far more critical and substantial breaches (1.1TB contextually really isn't a lot of data from something like Disney, depending on what the data compromises of) are cut short due I'd suspect in part to lack of technical sophistication of adversaries.
https://hackread.com/... Provided this is true, it really speaks to the lack of sophistication of many of these adversaries. If I owned an internal Slack, I'm sure there would be material in there that could be used to meaningfully pivot and compromise other systems.
How did Slack miss this? Someone downloads your entire grid with an admin token, and Slack doesn't notice that? Or did they hack the ediscovery vendor? https://hackread.com/...
Individuals are reporting that NullBulge, the individuals claiming responsibility for the Disney slack leak, website is suddenly offline - individuals are unable to pull the leak. tl;dr Disney has an army of lawyers (and probably nerds) [image]
Reddit users and some gaming news outlets are now confirming that the supposed Disney 1.1TB leak is authentic. The data allegedly comes from Disney's internal Slack channel. A hacktivist group NullBulge leaked it in response to Disney's treatment of its writers and artists. [imag…
🚨🚨#DataBreach 🚨🚨 “NullBulge” claims to have leaked Disney's internal Slack. According to the post, the amount of data leaked is 1.1 terabytes and includes almost 10,000 channels, every message and file, unreleased projects, raw images and code, some logins, links to [image]
NEW: Hackers claim to have leaked 1.1 TB of Disney's internal Slack messages, containing a massive trove of communications and other information. Security experts say the data looks legitimate. Disney says it's investigating. @lilyhnewman reports: https://www.wired.com/...
If the rumored Disney hack is real, it is likely a lot of commentators are going to be torn between the response that it is poor form to target a children's entertainment company, & the punk impulse to burn the avatar of corporate greed strangling copyright with the rotted zombie
After the alleged leak of Disney's internal Slack, NullBulge reports that its blog is the target of a DDoS attack with 9.2 million total requests, which was mitigated. #DDoS [image]