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Sead Fadilpašić

Disney's biggest cybersecurity threat could be...Club Penguin fans?

Disney castle.

The feud between Disney and the fans of its defunct Club Penguin game has taken an unexpected security-focused turn after a seemingly fresh database full of sensitive company information was leaked online.

Earlier this week, a threat actor posted a new thread on 4Chan with a simple message: “I no longer need these :)” and held a link to a 415MB archive which contained 137 PDFs with internal information about Club Penguin, an old massive multiplayer online (MMO) game, shut down years ago, but still with a devout following that plays it somewhat illegally. 

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