A furry hacktivist group has breached Disney, leaked 1.1TiB of data, and says it's because Club Penguin shut down
Disney has suffered a massive leak of employee and company information, after hackers claimed one of its software managers was the victim of a Trojan horse malware attack. A whopping 1.1 terabytes of data has been leaked online, including personal information and details of unannounced products, including videogames. And the hackers say they're furries, and cite the shutdown of Club Penguin in March 2017 as justification.
The so-called hacktivist group is called Nullbulge and let me do you a favour: don't Google that word. It's one of those fanart terms referring to a prominent groinal bulge that usually has a giant lock illustration on it. Nullbulge describes itself as «a hacktivist group protecting artists' rights and ensuring fair compensation for their work,» and this statement of intent is accompanied by a very NSFW image of a lion, which emphasises the beast's package.
The group lists a bunch of things that, it says, makes a target fair game. These include «crypto promotion», «AI artwork», «any form of theft», and generally anything to do with creator compensation. Disney of course is right in the middle of the fights around AI use, whether that's CEO Bob Iger's outspoken opposition to the SAG-AFRA strike fighting for AI regulation and opposing artificial likenesses of actors and their voices, or the use of AI tech in the creation of upcoming projects.
«Our hacks are not those of malice,» claim Nullbulge, «but those to punish those caught stealing. Big and small theft, meet the same fate.» Big talk but, on this occasion at least, it's been backed up. We'll come to how it happened shortly, but after dropping various hints and some minor leaks, Nullbudge released all the data it had stolen from Disney alongside the following statement:
«Hi there folks, it's us again.
»Yesturday [sic] we leaked some small DB, now we leak the big guns.
«1.1 TiB of data, almost 10,000 channels, every message and file possible dumped. Unreleased projects, raw images and code, some
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