Ryan Mitchell Kramer caused Disney roughly $2.3 million in damages, the company told the court
A Santa Clarita man who hacked a Disney employee’s personal computer and used information obtained to illegally download company data, was sentenced to 15 months incarceration and 24 months supervised release, the FBI announced this week.
In 2024, Ryan Mitchell Kramer, 25, uploaded a malicious file disguised as an AI-art generator to GitHub. A Disney employee downloaded the fake tool, which compromised the employee’s personal computer and gave Kramer access to their stored work credentials, according to court records. He then threatened the employee posing as a Russian hacker, and when the Disney worker didn’t pay a ransom demand, he released internal Slack messages online.
“Computer intrusions and data theft are investigated by the FBI and, as this case makes clear, have life-changing consequences,” the Los Angeles FBI field office said in a statement.
In July 2024, Kramer contacted the victim via email and the online messaging platform Discord, pretending to be a member of a fake Russia-based hacktivist group called “NullBulge.” The emails and Discord messages contained threats to leak the victim’s personal information and Disney’s Slack data.
Kramer admitted in a plea agreement that, in addition to the victim, at least two other victims downloaded Kramer’s malicious file, and that Kramer was able to gain unauthorized access to their computers and accounts.
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