Disney Data Breach: 25-Year-Old Pleads Guilty to Stealing 1TB of Confidential Data
2025-05-03

A 25-year-old California man, Ryan Mitchell Kramer, pleaded guilty to hacking a Disney employee's computer and stealing over 1 terabyte of confidential data. He disguised malware as an AI art generator, gaining access to the victim's computer and subsequently stealing data from numerous Disney Slack channels. This included employee personal information, internal communications, and recruitment data. Kramer then threatened the victim and publicly released the stolen information. Disney and the FBI are investigating the incident.
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