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Title: Man Pleads Guilty To Stealing 1.1 Terabytes of Disney's Slack Data

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/03/01262...

A 25-year-old from Santa Clarita has pleaded guilty to hacking a Disney
employee's computer using malware disguised as an AI art tool, stealing over
1 terabyte of confidential Disney data and threatening to leak it under the
guise of a fake Russian hacktivist group. Variety reports: Santa Clarita
resident Ryan Mitchell Kramer, 25, pleaded guilty to two felony charges,
including one count of accessing a computer and obtaining information and one
count of threatening to damage a protected computer. Each charge carries a
maximum sentence of five years in federal prison. According to the plea
agreement, in early 2024 Kramer posted a computer program on various online
platforms that appeared to be used to create AI-generated art, when it really
contained a malicious file to gain access to victims' computers. Between
April and May 2024, a Disney employee downloaded the program, and Kramer
gained access to the victim's personal and work accounts, including a non-
public Disney Slack channel. Kramer dowloaded approximately 1.1 terabytes of
confidential data from thousands of Disney Slack channels. In July, Kramer
contacted the victim by pretending to be a member of a fake Russian
hacktivist group called "Nullbulge" and threatened to leak their personal
information and Disney Slack data. On July 12, Kramer publicly released the
data, including the victim's bank, medical, and personal information on
multiple online platforms.

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