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walt disney company The 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.
According to Disney, the company has begun transitioning to a new internal “streamlined, enterprise-wide collaboration tool,” but on Thursday officially informed employees and cast members that most of its business units will stop using Slack at the end of Disney's next fiscal quarter. A memo from Disney Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston.
Disney told investors in August that the summer data hack, which included a slew of financial information, computer code and details of unreleased projects, was not expected to have a material impact on the company's operations or financial results.
Disney Company Representative salesperson, Slack's owner did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment.
“Our security is rock solid,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said at a conference. spoke to Bloomberg this week at the company's annual Dreamforce conference.
“Companies must also take the right steps to prevent phishing attacks and target employees for social engineering,” he added. “So, we can do our part, but our customers have to do their part too.”
Benioff noted that Disney continues to use Salesforce products in other aspects of its business, including Disney Store, Disney Guide, sales and service operations, and call centers.