Subj : Hacker pleads guilty to i
To : All
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sat May 03 2025 10:50 am
Hacker pleads guilty to illegally accessing Disney Slack channels and
stealing huge tranche of data
Date:
Fri, 02 May 2025 15:02:00 +0000
Description:
Nullbulge spread info-stealing malware, with 1.1TB data stolen.
FULL STORY
A Santa Clara man who created an AI image generation tool that deployed
hidden malware has pleaded guilty to stealing over 1.1 TB of internal company
data after illegally accessing Disneys internal Slack channels.
The hacker, Ryan Mitchell Kramer, who went by the name NullBulge was charged
with one count of accessing a computer and obtaining information and one
count of threatening to damage a protected computer, the US Attorneys Office
for the Central District of California reported .
The incident had wide reaching consequences, with Disney choosing to ditch
Slack in favour of Microsoft teams following the breach . Over 10,000 Slack
channels were involved in the incident, and confidential data including
internal communications and sensitive information like images, source code
and credentials were compromised.
A malicious programme
Kramer reportedly accepted a plea deal, pleading guilty to the two felony
charges that each carry a statutory maximum sentence of five years in federal
prison - but he has not yet been sentenced.
The plea deal outlines that in early 2024, Kramer posted a computer program
on various online platforms, including GitHub, that purported to be computer
program that could be used to create A.I.-generated art. In fact, the program
contained a malicious file that enabled Kramer to gain access to victims
computers.
After the victim downloaded the malicious file, Kramer accessed Disneys
information through the victims personal computer, where he stored login
credentials for personal and professional accounts.
After the hacker accessed these accounts, he downloaded over 1.1TB of data
from Disney, which was then publicly released alongside the victims bank,
medical, and personal information.
According to the report, the FBI is currently investigating the possibility
of at least two more victims hit by similar attacks by Kramer .
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/hacker-pleads-guilty-to-illegally-acces
sing-disney-slack-channels-and-stealing-1-1tb-of-data
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