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Fired Disney employee will plead guilty to hacking menus to hide peanut content


Michael Scheuer, who had been a Disney menu production manager, in one instance added a swastika to a menu during hack, prosecutors said.

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. A criminal complaint filed in October accused him of accessing menu-creation software on the heels of his termination and making the changes to Disney restaurant menus over a three-month period. "The incident followed Scheuer having received notice earlier in the day of a search warrant previously executed by federal agents on his Google account," the plea agreement said.

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