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Former Disney employee sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to altering allergen info on menu items

The former Walt Disney World employee who was arrested amid accusations he altered allergen information on menus after being terminated has been sentenced to three years in federal prison.

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. Winter Garden Man Sentenced to 3 Years IN FEDERAL PRISON for Conducting Series of Cyber Intrusions Against Former Employer (excerpt) Disney said it caught the changes before the menus were shipped to restaurants and was forced to take its menu creation program offline for more than a week, what the company claims cost at least $150,000. On Thursday, the DOJ announced U.S. District Judge Julie S. Sneed had sentenced Scheuer to three years in federal prison “for knowingly transmitting a program, code, or command to a protected computer and intentionally causing damage and for committing aggravated identity theft,” a news release states.

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