Report: Disney leak contained personal information of some cruise ship employees

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

Back in July, Nullbulge – a self-proclaimed Russia-based hacktivist group that advocates for artists’ rights – uploaded 1.1 terabytes of Disney data from the media giant’s internal Slack channels to the internet.

Slack is an enterprise messaging app used by many large companies, especially since work shifted to hybrid and remote workplaces following the COVID-19 pandemic. The software can be used on computers and smartphones.

“Consider the release of literally all of your personal information, from logins to credit cards to social security number, a warning to future users,” Nullbulge’s website says about the Disney leak.

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The hacktivist group says it only hacks “if you have committed one of our sins,” which it lists as crypto advertising, AI artwork and any form of theft.

Disney did not immediately respond to a request for comment from FOX Business, but a spokesperson previously told The Wall Street Journal that it would not comment on “unverified information that The Wall Street Journal allegedly received as a result of the illegal activities of a malicious actor.”

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Slack is a business messaging app used by many large companies. The software can be used on computers and smartphones. (Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images / Getty Images)

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

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

In this photo illustration, the Disney Plus logo is seen on a smartphone screen next to a login screen with email, password, and sign up. (Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images / Getty Images)

The Slack channels also revealed passport numbers, visa details, places of birth, mailing addresses and current duties of Disney employees on board the company's cruise ships, the WSJ reports.

According to WSJ, Disney told investors in a regulatory filing in August that it was investigating the leak, but that the incident had not had a material impact on its operations or financial position, and the company did not expect it to.

Information leaked from the Walt Disney Company earlier this summer includes cruise line employee passport numbers, revenue from Disney+ and Genie+ (now Lightning Lane), and guest data. (Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images / Getty Images)

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According to the WSJ, Nullbulge accessed the data via the compromised computer of a software development manager.

“Companies are constantly falling victim to data theft, especially data theft from the cloud and software-as-a-service platforms,” Roei Sherman, field CTO at Mitiga Security, told tech magazine Wired.