Fired Disney Employee Will Plead Guilty to Hacking Menus to Hide Peanut Content

A former Disney employee agreed to plead guilty in a federal criminal case where he is accused of hacking into menu-creation software for the company’s restaurants, to falsely indicate that certain food items did not contain potentially deadly allergens such as peanuts, a court filing Friday shows.

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Michael Scheuer is also accused of making other changes to Disney restaurant menus, including altering fonts, causing some pages to be blank and changing information about wines to replace geographic regions with the locations of “recent mass shootings,” the filing says.


In one instance, Scheuer added “a swastika” to a menu, according to the plea agreement filed in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida. He has agreed to plead guilty to two felony counts — computer fraud and aggravated identity theft.

The Court Watch news site first reported the plea agreement.

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