After hacking Disney restaurant menus, former employee receives a sentence of the American court with millionaire compensation
Last week, a former Disney parks employee was convicted by the American court to three years in prison for invading the company’s servers and changing restaurant menus, including inappropriate language and false information about allergens.
The man, who meets the name of Michael Scheuer And he worked as a menus production manager for Disney, he is a resident of Florida, and received the Federal Court’s judgment that, in addition to the time of imprisonment, also ordered him to pay approximately US $ 690,000 in compensation (just over 3.895 million reais in the current conversion).
In January, Michael He stated that he is guilty of accusations for digital fraud and aggravated identity theft. Second David Haaslawyer of the accused, in a statement to CNN International, “Scheuer He remains sorry and apologizes to his former cokens. We are grateful that the judge heard all our arguments and attenuating by establishing a sentence that was half of what the government was looking for. ”
According to information released in the original complaint, reflected by CNN Brazil, Michael Scheuer He had been fired from the company in June last year after presenting misconduct. Due to his position, man had access to internal servers where he could create and publish menus from all Disney restaurants.
It was due to this access that the former collaborator managed to change prices and information on foods that had allergen ingredients, and include inappropriate language. The complaint also points out that the change was noted by other employees when Michael changed the sources of the text to symbols.
According to a statement issued by the United States Department of Justice, the accused would also have made changes to “menu information related to wine regions to reflect recent mass shootings,” and disabled Disney’s internal system of other employees.
After Mickey’s house identified all the menus that were modified by Scheuerthey were promptly removed before they were officially sent to the establishments.
Source: Recreio
