A former Disney employee's world was turned upside down when he downloaded an artificial intelligence-powered photo program, unaware that it was laced with hacking software, during a massive data breach at the entertainment giant.
In July, Matthew Van Andel, an engineer at Disney at the time, got a message on the chat forum Discord from an unknown account, which seemed to know personal, granular details that would only be possible if the individual had access to his workplace Slack chat program.
