In addition to stealing game information, the hackers also obtained data from internal tools, corporate strategies and advertising plans.
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The story of the latest hack suffered by Disney is, to say the least, curious. Behind the cyber attack are neither government organizations that want to attack the company nor dangerous hackers who want to collect data for subsequent sale, no. Those responsible for recent hack suffered by Disney are fans of the game Club Penguinpurchased by the American company in 2007 and closed permanently by it in 2018.
According to reports from BleepingComputera group of diehard Club Penguin fans have hacked Disney’s servers to collect information about your favorite game. However, the attack has gone further and the pirates have ended up taking over 2.5 GB of information related to other matters of Disney, such as its advertising plans, its corporate strategies and software tools.
A hack that has gone beyond Club Penguin
It all started when this week an anonymous user shared a link on 4Chan accompanied by the text _”I no longer need these :).”, something like _”I no longer need them” if we translate it into Spanish. The link gave access to a folder called “Internal Club Penguin PDFs”with a size of 415 MB and made up of 137 files in PDF format. Specifically, these files contained information related to the game, such as design schematics and character data sheets.
As explained from BleepingComputerthis Club Penguin game information has at least 7 years old, so currently it can only be interesting for those who are still fans of the game. At this time it is worth mentioning that 6 years have passed since its disappearance, but that Club Penguin maintains a group of very loyal fans who continue debating the game and demanding its return.
Disney+ has been one of the Disney platforms affected by the hack
These fans are so angry with the end of Club Penguin that some of them have chosen to hack Disney’s servers to obtain information about the game. The problem is that the attack has gone further and has led to the 2.5 GB data theft related to the company. Specifically, the hack has been Disney Confluence server The attackers have now had enough to use passwords that had previously been leaked.
The stolen files, which have been verified by BleepingComputercollect data from corporate strategiesadvertising plans, business projectsinternal development tools and even from Disney+.
The initial goal was to collect private information about Club Penguin, but the attack has gone much further.
The hacked Disney+ information is old, as the game disappeared years ago, but the files related to Disney’s internal structure They are from this same 2024. In fact, one of the documents is dated June 1, 2024, which shows that the hack was very recent.
This attack comes after Disney has Requested closure of all unauthorized versions of Club Penguin that have been born in recent years. As is normal, this has not pleased the fans of the game, although we did not imagine that disenchantment came to hacking of the company that has given them so much trouble.
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