Now Disney's taken a bold, if controversial choice to ditch Slack entirely. Many employees, who have a lot of time and effort invested in the tool, aren't happy.CNBC reports on a memo from Disney Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston notifying employees and cast members of the change.

Walt Disney plans to transition away from its use of Slack as a companywide workplace collaboration system, after a hacking entity leaked online more than a terabyte of company data, according to a report in the Status media newsletter.

Disney said it was investigating an unauthorized release of over a terabyte of data from one of its communication systems.

Learn more about why Disney has decided to ditch Slack, with plans to transition away from the team communication platform by the start of 2025.

The Walt Disney Company is reportedly ditching Slack after a July data breach exposed over 1TB of confidential messages and files posted to the company's internal communication channels.

Many teams at Disney—which employs about 220,000 people—have already started transitioning to other collaboration tools, according to the memo. By the end of Q1 2025, Disney will have transitioned off Slack, but some “more complex use cases” may not be completed until the end of the subsequent quarter, the memo said.

Mickey Mouse collaboration system Walt Disney is to abandon companywide workplace collaboration system Slack after a hack exposed company data, report says Disney's CFO Hugh Johnston said most of the media and entertainment company's businesses would stop using the service later this year.

Walt Disney plans to stop using Slack as its workplace collaboration tool after a hacking group leaked over a terabyte of company data online. CFO Hugh Johnston announced that most businesses would transition to new tools later this year.

Disney told employees on Thursday that it will no longer use Slack for internal communication after a hack earlier this year allowed cybercriminals to expose financial materials, computer codes, and o