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Former Disney employee who hacked Disney World menus sentenced to 3 years

by aa_is_op on 4/27/25, 1:42 PM with 43 comments

  • by ilovecurl on 4/27/25, 4:47 PM

    I wonder if there was a connection to the ongoing wrongful death lawsuit after a doctor suffered a fatal allergic reaction at a Disney World restaurant? That's the one where Disney tried to get her widower's lawsuit tossed by pointing to the fine print of a Disney+ trial he had signed up for years earlier.
  • by shadowgovt on 4/27/25, 7:34 PM

    I've been looking at the stories about this and one thing I haven't been able to find: how was he able to modify the data in Disney's system after they fired him? Stole someone else's credentials, left a back door they didn't catch, or did they fail to switch him off?
  • by billy99k on 4/27/25, 5:45 PM

    They deserve more time. Changing food allergin warnings could have killed someone.
  • by derektank on 4/27/25, 4:04 PM

    >These intrusions included manipulating allergen information in restaurant menus to indicate that food items were safe for customers with certain allergies, when they were not. Scheuer also altered menu information related to wine regions to reflect locations of recent mass shootings. Additionally, Scheuer launched denial-of-service attacks designed to lock certain company employees out of their accounts.

    Endangering third parties in an effort to take revenge on your former employer is sociopath territory.

  • by stainablesteel on 4/27/25, 6:46 PM

    what a wild situation, were their menus digital or did he edit a pdf in their database somewhere?
  • by acjohnson55 on 4/27/25, 5:14 PM

    3 years seems extreme. Drunk drivers mostly don't get jail time.