Hacker News
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Mohit Kumar
Former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys,
who was convicted last year of helping the Anonymous group of hackers,
has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for computer hacking charges.
Keys was found guilty last year in October of giving Anonymous login credentials that allowed the group to deface the Los Angeles Times, a Tribune Media-owned newspaper, back in 2013.
After leaving the job at Tribune Company-owned Sacramento KTXL Fox 40
in 2010, Keys posted login credentials for the company's content
management system (CMS) on a chatroom where hacking collective Anonymous
planned out their operations.
The hacking collective then logged into the CMS and defaced an LA Times article
that remained defaced for about 40 minutes before a journalist noticed
and changed it back – though Keys still denies all allegations.
Keys faced a possible sentence of up to 25 years for three counts of hacking charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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