Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus

Former Disney employee Michael Scheuer was sentenced to 36 months in prison and fined almost $688,000 for screwing up a software application the entertainment giant used to cook up its restaurant menus. Scheuer, a resident of Winter Garden, Florida, was arrested in October and charged with breaking America's Computer Fraud and …

[IGotOut]

And yet Disney kill someone...

...by not labelling allergens correctly and they insist the widow goes to arbitration.

Don't you love how money is everything.

[Erythrite]

Re: And yet Disney kill someone...

Florida man...

[Korev]

Re: And yet Disney kill someone...

Don't take the Mick!

[Anonymous Coward]

Disney menus?

I thought everything was just made from sugar and fat.

[Jamie Jones]

> "As to the former, Scheuer added notations to menu items indicating they were safe for people with specific allergies, "

From stupid bastard to evil bastard.

[Phil O'Sophical]

Yrs, never mind computer misuse, that is verging on GBH, if not attempted murder.

[SVD_NL]

Right, disrupting Disney restaurants is one thing (you could argue he indirectly saved some lives there), but changing allergen information has serious consequences, people could have died here.

What if he was less stupid and more evil, and would've only changed the allergen information? How long would it take to notice, and how long would dangerous menus remain in circulation?

[Potemkine!]

A Menu Production Manager having administrator rights on a SFTP server ? There's a problem with segregation of duties in Disney. He should be a user, not an administrator.

[Korev]

Yeah, it makes Disney look like some Micky Mouse outfit

[Doctor Syntax]

And he's a muppet so obviously in the wrong place.

[The Oncoming Scorn]

The Muppets were acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 2004.

Which makes Miss Piggy a Disney Princess.

[Anonymous Coward]

... Would you want to try to tell her otherwise?

[The Oncoming Scorn]

I can see why you went AC for that post.

[mikeinaustin]

And a $688,000 fine.

He doesn't need a house anyway.

What an idiot.

[CorwinX]

Re: And a $688,000 fine.

Messing up a menu for revenge is one thing.

Messing around with allergen info is a whole different ballgame.

He'd be up on manslaughter charges if someone had died.

I worked as a waiter for a number of years and, regardless of the menu, you always ask if anyone at a table has any allergies - Nut and Seafood being the most critical.

And we had Epipens on hand in the first-aid kit just in case.