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Ex-Disney Employee Sentenced to 3 Years for Hacking Menu Systems

Michael Scheuer altered menus to include offensive content and falsified allergen information, posing public health risks and operational disruptions.

A former employee hacked into Disney’s menu creation servers multiple times to manipulate and disrupt the menus, such as changing prices and adding profane language.
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Overview

  • Michael Scheuer, a former Disney menu manager, was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $688,000 in restitution.
  • Scheuer pled guilty to computer fraud and aggravated identity theft after repeatedly hacking Disney’s menu-creation system following his termination in June 2024.
  • His malicious changes included falsifying allergen information, altering wine-region listings to reference mass shooting locations, and embedding offensive symbols like swastikas.
  • Disney identified and removed all corrupted menus before distribution, taking the system offline to restore backups and mitigate further damage.
  • Scheuer also conducted denial-of-service attacks, locking out 14 employee accounts and attempting over 100,000 unauthorized logins, which ceased after the FBI seized his computer.