The Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse float passes during the Festival of Fantasy daily 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 involving more than a terabyte of company data was leaked to the public.
The company had already begun transitioning to new “internal collaboration tools streamlined for the entire company,” but officially notified employees and cast members on Thursday that most of its business units would stop using Slack by the end of Disney’s next fiscal quarter, according to a memo from Disney CFO Hugh Johnston that was obtained by CNBC.
Disney told investors in August that the summer data hack, which included a variety of financial information, computer code and details about unpublished projects, was not expected to have a material impact on the company's operations or financial performance.
Representatives of 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 during an interview with Bloomberg at the company's annual Dreamforce conference this week.
“Companies also need to take appropriate measures to prevent phishing attacks and block social engineering of their employees,” he added. “So we can do our part, but our customers also need to do theirs.”
Benioff noted that Disney continues to use Salesforce products in other aspects of its business, including its Disney Store, Disney Guides, sales and service operations and call centers.
