Slack Warns Investors It's a Target for Nation-State Hacking (motherboard.vice.com)

Duh, any major communications platform is a target.

That sounds like a canary alarm to me. Prob receiving several requests from the US gov?

So does this also reference sensitive information private companies are using? The article says your boss can look at your stuff, but if you're using it I assume that would be the case anyway. What about IP etc?

Um... Duh? Any significant technology company, especially one dealing with communications, could be a potential target for malicious actors. How is this even news? Can't wait for "Banks warn customers they're potential target for robbers." This is straight up FUD from vice

While it's expected a technology company dealing with communication would be the target of external threat actors, I think there's value in Slack being very clear that eliminating the risks from a strongly motivated actor is not completely possible. As commonsense as that would seem, most of the public do not have a strong grasp on these more advanced cyber actors. What's nice in being proactive is that it opens up a proper conversation prior to a breach (yes, I know they were breached before) and could get us closer to coming up with a better solution for dealing with these attacks.