Disney told employees on Thursday that it will no longer use Slack for internal communication after a hack earlier this year allowed cybercriminals to expose financial materials, computer codes, and o

Learn more about why Disney has decided to ditch Slack, with plans to transition away from the team communication platform by the start of 2025.

In an internal memo shared this week, CFO Hugh Johnston says most Disney teams will move away from Slack by the end of this year.

Walt Disney plans to transition away from its use of Slack as a companywide workplace collaboration system, after a hacking entity leaked online more than a terabyte of company data, according to a report in the Status media newsletter.

The entertainment company reportedly issued a memo to staff that a migration away from Slack’s collaboration application will conclude next year. The move follows a high-profile data breach that led to the publication of 44 million Slack messages and tens of thousands of documents by a hacking group.

The Walt Disney Company is reportedly ditching Slack after a July data breach exposed over 1TB of confidential messages and files posted to the company's internal communication channels.

Hacktivist” group NullBulge didn’t like that Disney uses AI to generate some of its artwork, so it leaked a whopping 1.1 terabytes of data from the entertainment giant’s internal Slack archive in July.

After a massive leak of financial and strategy data this summer through Slack, Disney has decided it's more of a Microsoft Teams player. An internal memo obtained by Business Insider on Thursday confirms that Disney is moving away from Slack on a company-wide level.