A Disney World employee fired in June was arrested last week and accused of hacking into menu-creation software used by the company’s restaurants to falsely show that certain food items didn’t contain peanuts.

Michael Scheuer, of Winter Garden, was a menu production manager for Disney before he was terminated for misconduct, according to the criminal complaint filed in U.S District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The complaint said the firing was contentious and not amicable.

His arrest Oct. 23 followed an FBI investigation that concluded he breached the company’s software several times over three months.

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