Reuters Deputy Social Media Editor Indicted by Department of Justice
Matthew Keys could face jail time and fines
The Department of Justice on Thursday afternoon charged Reuters deputy social media editor Matthew Keys for conspiring with the hacker collective Anonymous to attack Tribune Company websites.
The indictment surrounds the hacking of a Los Angeles Times Web page and allegations that Keys gave Anonymous log-in credentials to access Tribune Company servers in December 2010. Keys was a former Tribune Company employee well before his days at Reuters.
Keys has been mentioned in the same breath as Anonymous before and spoken about the matter on his own blog as well as on Reuters, as BuzzFeed first reported.
Keys was identified as AESCracked in a 2012 book about Anonymous books.google.com/books?id=ncGVP…
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