ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) — A former Walt Disney World worker will plead responsible to hacking menu-creation software to incorporate profanity and alter allergy info.
Federal courtroom paperwork filed Friday present Michael Scheuer intends to plead responsible to prices of knowingly transmitting a program, info, code, and command and deliberately inflicting injury with out authorization to a protected pc and aggravated identification theft.
When accessing the menu-creation software program, Scheuer was accused of creating some pages inaccessible, altering fonts and allergy info, and including profanity and pictures, together with a swastika. The grievance acknowledged that Scheuer altered the listings for sure wines and “modified their area to that of latest mass shootings.”
Along with manipulating the menus, Scheuer launched denial-of-service assaults geared toward disabling 14 worker accounts. He hid his identification and placement utilizing a VPN.
He was additionally accused of leaking the menu creation hyperlink on the darkish internet. Federal brokers seized 4 computer systems throughout a September raid at his residence.
Disney claimed Scheuer’s actions resulted in over $150,000 in injury, however the actual quantity has but to be decided by the courtroom. His lawyer, David Hass, told CNBC he’s “ready to just accept duty for his conduct,” and that he had psychological well being points that had been exacerbated by Disney firing him after he returned from paternity go away.
Hass mentioned that upon Scheuer’s sentencing, he shall be topic to a nice and shall be ordered to pay restitution. It’s not but identified how a lot jail time he faces.
