
Bridget Reid
Features writer at New York Magazine; author of "Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America"
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Jun 20, 2026
Your Group Chats Are Now Blackmail
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Bridget ReidGUEST
And once he was hacked, so not only did the hacker get into his one password and release a ton of personal information about him on BitTorrent, the hacker used his information to get into his Disney Slack, which is why they were sending that message.

Bridget ReidGUEST
Somehow had a ton of information either sitting on Slack or accessible through Slack that the hacker also uploaded to the Internet.

Bridget ReidGUEST
And that included, you know, Social Security information for a lot of its employees, spreadsheets, financial information.
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ICYMI - Your Group Chats Are Now Blackmail
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Kate LindseyHOST
a kind of blurred line of like he alleges personal activity that the hacker surfaced and that he alleges that he's being professionally punished for even though he says it has nothing to do with his work laptop and so maybe you can to talk about that weird gray area that's happening.

Bridget ReidGUEST
Yeah, so this guy from the beginning of the story, we kind of come back to him.

Bridget ReidGUEST
And once he was hacked, so not only did the hacker get into his 1Password and release a ton of personal information about him on BitTorrent, The hacker used his information to get into his Disney Slack, which is why they were sending that message.

Bridget ReidGUEST
And Disney somehow had a ton of information either sitting on Slack or accessible through Slack that the hacker also uploaded to the Internet.

Bridget ReidGUEST
And that included, you know, Social Security information for a lot of its employees, spreadsheets, financial information, etc.
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