Disney was hacked by... Furries?

I go away for one weekend and all hell breaks loose. Especially outside the world of gaming. I mean, you’ve all seen the rolling news coverage. “Free drink refills could be banned in Wales”. We truly are in the darkest timeline. Fortunately, that law isn’t coming home to England. Talk about dodging a bullet. But damn, in the world of gaming and media and entertainment, things aren’t slowing down either. 

Disney has seemingly been hacked, with a huge 1.1TB of data being compromised. That’s according to Nullbulge, a questionably named hactivist group, that according to their website “aims to protect artists’ rights and ensure fair compensation for their work”. 

And, wait, yep, it also has an image of a humanoid-looking lion, with a giant bulge (exactly where you think it is). The furry hackers are back at it again.

I say again, as last year a different group of furry hackers called sieged sec hacked a nuclear facility, demanded they research the creation of catgirls, before releasing the statement, “meow meow meow meow meow”. 

Nullbulge’s hacks seem to have more of an ethical agenda, however, saying they target people who commit one of their three sins. Crypto promotion, the use of ai-generated artwork, and any form of theft from artists. And considering Disney has whole NFT collections, are investing heavily in AI, and has been accused of stealing artwork, well you can see why they were a prime candidate. 

So how did they pull it off? Once again it was through Slack. For those unaware, it’s basically Discord, but for work, and a lot of places use it. And for a hacker, it’s kind of the dream, because there’s none of this frantic typing away, hacking the mainframe and planting trojans. No, instead you just have to trick one employee into giving away their account details, and boom, you suddenly have access to tons of super secret intel. 

It’s the same strategy used by the dude who hacked Rockstar and leaked clips of GTA6. Though he thought it would be a good idea to go from a hotel room, with a police officer outside because he was on bail for having Nvidia and BT/EE. It’s a lot easier to get away with these hacks, if you know, you actually try. 

And man, Nullbulge has scrapped every inch of data they could. 

The group says the info dump includes “almost 10,000 channels, every message and file possible, unreleased projects, raw images, code, logins, links to internal API/web pages, and more!”

And you have to remember, this is Disney, so this means leaks are coming on so many things. Unannounced films, TV shows, merchandise, and what we care about most, games. In fact, we’re already seeing information on an unannounced sequel to Aliens Fireteam Elite. That’s apparently planned for Q3 of 2025.

And as people continue to trawl through all that data, who knows what else they’ll find. Info on the next Kingdom Hearts maybe? Or yet more Insomniac and Wolverine leaks? Man those guys can’t catch a break. 

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It’s unlikely we’ll see any full movies or big trailers or anything. Those files can be stretched into the 100s of gigabytes and aren’t the kind of thing shared on slack. But either way, I reckon the next month is going to be pretty wild when it comes to leaks. And due to how this hack has taken place, there’s so little companies can do to prevent it other than train their staff how to spot phishing scams. But yikes, when all it takes is one person to slip up, more of these hacks are inevitable. 

I’m curious what you think? Is Nullbulge’s “Hacktivism” in anyway justified? What secrets do you think we’ll see from the Disney hack? Let us know, in the comments.