
FILE: Guests dine at the Great Maple Restaurant at the Pixar Place Hotel at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA.
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An ex Disney The employee agreed to plead guilty in a federal criminal case where he is accused of hacking into the company’s menu creation software for restaurants, falsely indicating that certain food items might contain There were no fatal allergies such as peanuts, a Court filings Friday shows.
Michael Shaver He is also accused of making other changes to Disney restaurant menus, including altering fonts, blanking some pages and changing wine information to geographic regions “recently on a large scale,” the filing said. There is also an allegation of changing the shooting locations.
In one instance, Scheuer added “a swastika” to a menu, according to a plea agreement filed in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida. He has agreed to plead guilty to two felony counts. Computer fraud and increasing identity theft.
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The changes it made to allergen information on the menu “focused on peanut, tree nut, shellfish and milk allergens,” according to the filing.
“Scheuer added labels to menu items indicating they were safe for people with certain allergies, a change that could have fatal consequences depending on the type of allergy a customer has and can vary in severity.”
Although it is believed that “a few numbers” of altered menus were eventually printed, it is believed that all altered menus were identified and isolated before being sent to Disney restaurants. “
The plea agreement states that Disney no longer uses the third-party menu creation application that Shaver hacked. The company “moved to a manual menu approval and distribution process while a new system was developed.”
Scheuer was fired last June as menu production manager.
In August, according to the plea agreement, Scheuer launched a cyberattack “designed to continuously lock” Disney employees out of his company’s online accounts.
Many of the 14 employees targeted in the so-called denial-of-service attack had some sort of interaction with Scheuer while working at the company.
Federal agents raided Shaver’s residence on Sept. 23, the filing said. The denial-of-service attacks stopped minutes before agents first contacted him, and did not restart after his computer was seized, according to the filing.
A criminal complaint filed in October accused him of accessing menu-making software after his termination and making changes to Disney restaurant menus over a three-month period.
About a month after the raid, Shaver traveled to the residence of one of the targets of the DOS attack, the plea agreement states. Security camera footage shows Skewer parking in front of the target’s home at night, approaching the front door, inspecting the label on a package outside the door, and then walking back to his car. “Giving the camera a thumbs up,” Filing said.
“This incident occurred after Scheuer received notice earlier in the day of a search warrant by federal agents on his Google account,” the plea agreement states.
Because of the incident, Disney provided security to the victim, including removing him from his home and placing him in a hotel, the filing said.
Scheuer’s attorney, David Haas, told CNBC that his client will enter his guilty plea in the coming weeks.
“Mr. Shaver is willing to accept responsibility for his conduct,” Haas said. “Unfortunately, he has mental health issues that worsened when Disney fired him upon his return from paternity leave.”
“There was never any risk of injury to anyone and he is very remorseful for what happened.”
Haas said Shaver was fired after objecting to changes to the company’s restaurant menu-making system.
Scheuer will face restitution orders and fines when he is sentenced, Haas said. The amount of monetary damages to Disney, which has yet to be determined, will affect the prison time range recommended for him.