Disney4me Posted 19 hours ago Report Share Posted 19 hours ago A former Disney World employee has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for hacking into the menu software Disney uses to update its restaurant menus, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Magic Kingdom In addition to prison time, Michael Scheuer, 40, of Winter Garden, Florida, must pay almost $700,000 in fines for his crimes, which included updating Disney restaurant menus to falsely show certain food items didn’t contain peanuts and other allergens. A U.S. District Court Judge sentenced Scheuer on April 23rd, after he pleaded guilty in January to one count of computer fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft as part of a deal he made with prosecutors. He is also required to turn over the computer he used in the offenses and pay $687,776 in restitution to victims. Our meal at Cinderella’s Royal Table Prior to being terminated for misconduct in June 2024, Scheuer was a menu production manager for Disney. Since the hack, Disney has changed the software from the Menu Creator that was previously used. He was arrested last October after an FBI investigation. The criminal complaint stated that Scheuer “knowingly and without authorization caused the transmission of a program, information, code, or command to a protected computer and intentionally caused damage.” Within the complaint, Disney is only referred to as “Company A,” but according to Michael Scheuer’s lawyer, the company mentioned in the complaint is, in fact, Disney. Full Spread In his plea agreement, Scheuer admitted to breaching the company’s software multiple times between July and September. He made “notations to certain menu items falsely indicating they were safe for people with specific allergies such as to peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish and milk,” the agreement said. He also changed wine regions on menus to areas that recently suffered mass shootings, added a swastika to at least one menu, and changed QR codes to direct visitors to a website that encouraged boycotting Israeli companies, per the agreement. Yak and Yeti full spread! Scheuer blocked 14 Disney employees, including former coworkers, from their company accounts through denial-of-service attacks. The accounts were locked after too many failed login attempts, and he used a script to make over 100,000 automated attempts. The FBI discovered he had also collected personal information about four targeted employees. He initially denied involvement in the cyberattacks and said that Disney was trying to frame him. Full spread The night before he was arrested, Scheuer drove to the home of one of the employees around 11 PM, walked up to the front door, and gave a thumbs up to the Ring doorbell camera. The employee was forced to leave his residence and was placed in a hotel by Disney. Make sure you stay tuned to DFB for the latest Disney news. Join the DFB Newsletter to get all the breaking news right in your inbox! Click here to Subscribe! The post A Former Disney Employee Will Spend Three Years in Prison for Hacking Menus first appeared on the disney food blog.View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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