Disney worker who hacked menus gets 3 years in prison
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#2Changing prices and adding profanity is one thing but when you alter the allergens on a menu you put people’s lives at risk.
Re: Disney worker who hacked menus gets 3 years in prison
#3Changing prices and adding profanity is one thing but when you alter the allergens on a menu you put people’s lives at risk.
From the article: "None of the changes, including falsified information about food allergens that could have been harmful to visitors, ever appeared before the public, according to court records."
Re: Disney worker who hacked menus gets 3 years in prison
#4Changing prices and adding profanity is one thing but when you alter the allergens on a menu you put people’s lives at risk.
From the article: "None of the changes, including falsified information about food allergens that could have been harmful to visitors, ever appeared before the public, according to court records."
It was caught through review, and the defense claimed that he knew that would be the case and therefore he put no one at risk. I'd argue that systems can fail, review can fail, and if that happened people could have died. Giving him credit for that seems absurd, and his claim that he just wanted attention is equally absurd. If you just want attention the profanity and price changes would achieve that.
Regardless he wasn't convicted of any crime related to potential harm to customers, he was convicted for hacking and identity theft.
Re: Disney worker who hacked menus gets 3 years in prison
#5This is a dupe of an earlier submission
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811864
Re: Disney worker who hacked menus gets 3 years in prison
#6What credentials / access did he use to get into Disney's system after he was terminated?
Re: Disney worker who hacked menus gets 3 years in prison
#7The restitution seems too high. He probably was fired for going on mat leave as other companies have shown to do and wanted payback. The "unspecified misconduct" firing reason seems weird and they won't expand on it.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the article: "None of the changes, including falsified information about food allergens that could have been harmful to visitors, ever appeared before the public, according to court records."
It was caught through review, and the defense claimed that he knew that would be the case and therefore he put no one at risk. I'd argue that systems can fail, review can fail, and if that happened people could have died. Giving him credit for that seems absurd, and his claim that he just wanted attention is equally absurd. If you just want attention the profanity and price changes would achieve that. Regardless he w…
And probably only because Disney was his target and could pay a technical team unlimited money to investigate and spoon-feed the FBI and prosecutor everything they needed. A smaller chain or independent bar/restaurant would not have even gotten the time of day with a complaint about someone changing prices on a menu. And they would have been the ones in court defending any claims of injury due to undisclosed allergens, with only a vague claim of "our menu must have been hacked."
Re: Disney worker who hacked menus gets 3 years in prison
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the article: "None of the changes, including falsified information about food allergens that could have been harmful to visitors, ever appeared before the public, according to court records."
It was caught through review, and the defense claimed that he knew that would be the case and therefore he put no one at risk. I'd argue that systems can fail, review can fail, and if that happened people could have died. Giving him credit for that seems absurd, and his claim that he just wanted attention is equally absurd. If you just want attention the profanity and price changes would achieve that. Regardless he w…
> he just wanted attention
Achievement unlocked.
Re: Disney worker who hacked menus gets 3 years in prison
#10Disney is quite famous for its strict allergen handling, to the point where people with deadly allergies who don't trust eating out anywhere else make an exception for Disney restaurants. So, were it not for this mass murder attempt, he probably would have gotten off a lot more lightly for some mischief charges.