Disney to ditch Slack following July data breach

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The Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse interval passes by during the regular Festival of Fantasy Parade astatine the Magic Kingdom Park astatine Walt Disney World connected May 31, 2024, successful Orlando, Florida. 

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The Walt Disney Company volition nary longer usage Slack for in-house institution connection months aft a hack that progressive much than a terabyte of institution information being leaked to the public.

The institution had already begun to modulation to a caller interior "streamlined enterprise-wide collaboration tools," but officially notified employees and formed members Thursday that astir of its concern units would determination distant from Slack usage by the extremity Disney's adjacent fiscal quarter, according to a memo from Disney Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston that was obtained by CNBC.

Disney told investors successful August that the summertime information hack, which included a scope of fiscal information, machine codes and details astir unreleased projects, was not expected to person a worldly interaction connected the company's operations oregon fiscal performance.

Representatives from Disney and Salesforce, the proprietor of Slack, did not instantly respond to CNBC's petition for comment.

"Our information is rock-solid," Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, said during an interview with Bloomberg astatine the company's yearly Dreamforce league this week.

"Companies besides person to instrumentality the close measurement to forestall phishing attacks and to lockdown their employees' societal engineering," helium added. "So, we tin bash our part, but our customers besides person to bash their part."

Benioff noted that Disney continues to usage Salesforce products successful different aspects of its concern including its Disney store, Disney guides, income and work operations and its telephone centers.

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