Ex-editor Matthew Keys convicted in Los Angeles Times hack, Former Reuters amusing media editor Matthew Keys was begin accusable of allowance hackers breach into the Los Angeles Times website and blemish one of its headlines, according to cloister abstracts filed Wednesday.
Keys, 28, faces up to 25 years in bastille if he is bedevilled on January 20, 2016.
He was begin criminally amenable for giving hackers with the accumulation Anonymous log-in accreditation for a computer at the Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and added media outlets.
Keys had been accursed from Tribune-Co. endemic KTXL FOX 40 in October 2010. Two months later, he handed over the advice Anonymous bare to drudge its network.
He afterwards went to plan for Reuters, which absolved him afterwards he was answerable with the crime.
Keys, who was accusable in 2013 by a admirable board in California, was begin accusable on all three hacking-related charges.
In accession to accessible bastille time, he could aswell be bedevilled to nine years of supervised absolution and a accomplished of $750,000.
Court abstracts cover the log of an declared online babble amid Keys and an Anonymous affiliate nicknamed "Sharpie," who abundant accessing the Tribune server to change the LA Times story. "Sharpie" angry out to be "Sabu," a above Anonymous affiliate who awfully became an FBI adviser afterwards his arrest.
The confidence was acclaimed by Edward Snowden, a above CIA employe who is active in banishment afterwards aperture a massive accumulation of NSA documents.
Keys, 28, faces up to 25 years in bastille if he is bedevilled on January 20, 2016.
He was begin criminally amenable for giving hackers with the accumulation Anonymous log-in accreditation for a computer at the Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and added media outlets.
Keys had been accursed from Tribune-Co. endemic KTXL FOX 40 in October 2010. Two months later, he handed over the advice Anonymous bare to drudge its network.
He afterwards went to plan for Reuters, which absolved him afterwards he was answerable with the crime.
Keys, who was accusable in 2013 by a admirable board in California, was begin accusable on all three hacking-related charges.
In accession to accessible bastille time, he could aswell be bedevilled to nine years of supervised absolution and a accomplished of $750,000.
Court abstracts cover the log of an declared online babble amid Keys and an Anonymous affiliate nicknamed "Sharpie," who abundant accessing the Tribune server to change the LA Times story. "Sharpie" angry out to be "Sabu," a above Anonymous affiliate who awfully became an FBI adviser afterwards his arrest.
The confidence was acclaimed by Edward Snowden, a above CIA employe who is active in banishment afterwards aperture a massive accumulation of NSA documents.
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