- Hacker pleads not guilty to access confidential Disney files
- Disney’s private relaxing channels were broken in the attack
- The leak got Disney to switch from Slack to Microsoft -team
A Santa Clara man who created an AI image generation tool that inserted hidden malware pleaded not guilty to stealing over 1.1 TB of internal business data after illegal access to Disney’s internal relaxing channels.
Hacker, Ryan Mitchell Kramer, who went by the name of “Nullbulge”, was indicted for a count of access to a computer and obtaining information and a count of threatening a protected computer, the US lawyer’s office for the Central District of California reported.
The incident had great reach consequences in which Disney chose to ditch slack in favor of Microsoft team after the violation. Over 10,000 relaxing channels were involved in the incident, and confidential data including internal communication and sensitive information such as images, source code and credentials were compromised.
A malicious program
Kramer allegedly accepted a plea of agreement and asked guilty of the two crimes that each has a statutory maximum of five years in federal prison – but he has not yet been convicted.
Placingly deals with the outlines that Kramer in early 2024 released a computer program on various online platforms, including GitHub, which is alleged to be a computer program that could be used to create AI-generated art. In fact, the program contained a malicious file that allowed Kramer to access victims’ computers. “
After the victim downloaded the malicious file, Kramer gained access to Disney’s information through the victim’s personal computer, where he stored login credentials for personal and professional accounts.
After the hacker gained access to these accounts, he downloaded over 1.1 TB of data from Disney, which was then published publicly with the victim bank, medical and personal information.
According to the report, the FBI is currently investigating the possibility of at least two victims more affected by similar attacks by Kramer
