A fired Disney employee, who hacked into the company's internal system and changed allergen information on restaurant menus while adding profanities, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison.

A former Disney employee will serve three years in federal prison for logging into the company’s servers to make changes to its restaurant menus’ allergen information, as well as carrying out “denial-of-service attacks” aimed at locking other employees out of their accounts.

Former menu production manager Michael Scheuer hacked into Disney World’s system to falsify allergen information, add profanities and change prices. A former Disney World employee has been sentenced to three years in prison for a range of offences including hacking into the company’s servers to alter its restaurant menus.