Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse floats pass by during the Daily Fantasy Parade at Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World on May 31, 2024, in Orlando, Florida.
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The Walt Disney Company will no longer use Slack for internal company communications months after a hack that exposed more than a terabyte of the company’s data to the public.
According to a memo from Disney CFO Hugh Johnston obtained by CNBC, the company has begun transitioning to new internal “streamlined enterprise-wide collaboration tools,” but formally notified employees and cast members on Thursday that most of the company’s business units will stop using Slack by the end of the next fiscal quarter.
In August, Disney told investors that the summer data breach, which included a trove of financial information, computer code and details about unreleased projects, was not expected to have a material impact on the company’s operations or financial performance.
Representatives from Disney and Sales force, Slack’s owner did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
“Our security is rock solid,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in a interviewed by Bloomberg at the company’s annual Dreamforce conference this week.
“Companies also need to take the right steps to prevent phishing attacks and block social engineering attacks on employees,” he added. “So we can do our part, but our customers need to do their part, too.”
Benioff noted that Disney continues to use Salesforce products in other aspects of its business including Disney stores, Disney guides, sales and service operations, and call centers.
