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Disney employee loses everything after hacker steals passwords and work data

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 27, 2025
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Disney employee Matthew Van Andel first discovered something was wrong when a stranger on Discord messaged him with details from his private workplace Slack conversations. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, the hacker had been lurking in his computer for five months after Va…

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