Sept 19 (Reuters) - Walt Disney ( DIS ) plans to

transition away from its use of Slack as a companywide workplace

collaboration system, after a hacking entity leaked online more

than a terabyte of company data, according to a report in the

Status media newsletter.

Disney's ( DIS ) CFO Hugh Johnston said most of the media and

entertainment company's businesses would stop using the service

later this year, the report said.

Many teams have already started transitioning to streamlined

enterprise-wide collaboration tools, according to the report.

Disney ( DIS ) and Salesforce's ( CRM ) Slack did not immediately

respond to Reuters requests for comment.

Hacking group NullBulge had published data from thousands of

Slack channels at the entertainment giant, including computer

code and details about unreleased projects, the Wall Street

Journal reported in July.

The data spans more than 44 million messages from Disney's ( DIS ) Slack

workplace communications tool, WSJ reported earlier this month.

The company had said in August it was investigating an

unauthorized release of over a terabyte of data from one of its

communication systems.

NullBulge compromises software supply chains by exploiting code

on GitHub and Hugging Face, collaborative coding platforms, and

tricks users into downloading malicious files, as per

SentinelOne's ( S ) threat intelligence and malware analysis team.