Journalist charged with helping Anonymous hack L.A. Times, TV station
A social media editor for Reuters was charged Thursday with helping the group Anonymous hack into a Sacramento television station website and altering a Los Angeles Times online article.
Matthew Keys, 26, was charged with conspiracy to transmit information to damage a protected computer, transmitting information to damage a protected computer and attempted transmission of information to damage a protected computer, according to a press release from the U.S. attorney's office. Keys could not immediately be reached for comment.
The incident occurred in 2010, prosecutors said, when Keys worked at Fox 40, a Tribune Co.-owned TV station. Tribune also owns the Los Angeles Times.
The indictment says Keys provided members of the hacker group Anonymous with log-in credentials for a computer server belonging to KTXL FOX 40’s corporate parent, the Tribune Co.
He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of all charges.
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