FOX News: Reuters' Matthew Keys charged with aiding hackers Anonymous in 2010

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Reuters' Matthew Keys charged with aiding hackers Anonymous in 2010 Mar 14th 2013, 22:04 This screengrab taken on March 14, 2013 shows the Twitter account of Matthew Keys. At the top of the page is a retweet of a story detailing Keys' indictment. A prominent social media journalist allegedly fed Tribune Company server logins to the Anonymous group of hackers in 2010, and authorities say at least one of the hackers used the information to sabotage part of the Los Angeles Times' website. Matthew Keys, 26, of Secaucus, N.J., faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted on several federal charges related to the security breach. Keys, now with Reuters, was a Web producer with KTXL, a Tribune-owned TV station in Sacramento, until he was terminated in October 2010, the Justice Department said without elaborating on the nature of Keys' termination. That December, he allegedly joined an Internet chat under the name AESCracked and offered members of Anonymous a way to access the Tribune server. The indictment filed on Thursday in federal court in California says he then encouraged the hackers to "go f--- some s--- up." Over the next few days, at least one of the hackers accessed Tribune's content management system under the name anon1234 to become familiar with how the system worked, the indictment says. Someone later logged in as ngarcia and was able to alter a news story on the website of the Los Angeles Times, which is owned by Tribune. The story's headline was changed to "Pressure builds in House to elect CHIPPY 1337," the indictment says, and similar changes were made to the story. Keys allegedly contacted one of the hackers afterward and, upon learning of the alterations, responded, "nice." The transcript of the online conversation included in the indictment, however, shows Keys lamenting that he had gotten "locked out for good," and the hacker is quoted as saying Tribune's security was able to find the rogue ngarcia account "damn quick." Keys has been working for Reuters since January 2012, according to BuzzFeed. Time magazine named him that year to its list of 140 Best Twitter Feeds. "If it's news, Matthew Keys will probably tweet it out," Time said at the time. Keys, who has 23,000 followers on Twitter, continued to tweet into the evening Thursday, and retweeted an announcement of his own indictment. He is charged in the Eastern District of California 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. The case was investigated by the FBI and is being prosecuted by the Justice Department's Criminal Division's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.

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