Former Reuters Employee Matthew Keys Found Guilty of Hacking

Anonymous, a loosely organised group of mostly low-level hackers, often targeted mainstream media websites and social media profiles. The altered story was live for about 40 minutes before an editor noticed and fixed it.

“I think had the full story come out, there would have been a very different answer in this case” Keys said.

Grasswire founder Austen Allred said Keys would remain employed with the company as his case went through the appeals process.

Keys, 28, who now lives in Vacaville, is scheduled to be sentenced January 20 on one count of conspiracy, one count of transmitting malicious code and one count of attempted transmission of malicious code. “What do you want, a year a minute?”

Lawyers for keys have asked Snowden to write a letter for sentencing.

The statutory maximum for the crimes Keys is convicted of is 25 years. “I hope they funnel that outrage and anger into progress”.

Prosecutors said Keys attacked Tribune afterleaving his job at itsKTXL Fox 40 television station in Sacramento.

“Go f*** a few shit up”, Keys said, while passing along the username and password to a hacker.

Though Keys could face up to 25 years in prison under the CFAA charges, Lauren Horwood, a spokesperson for the U.S. District Attorney’s office, stated that prosecutors were “likely” to seek five years imprisonment or less. But in April 2013, a month after he was charged in connection with the Los Angeles Times hack, the company fired him, citing purported inaccuracies in his reporting on the Boston Marathon bombing. Court documents claim the hacking cost Tribune $18,000 as employees spent 333 hours responding to the infiltration, according to The Associated Press. Famous for their web development books written by industry leaders, they’ve expanded their content library to include in-depth video courses and short, handy screencasts partnering with A Book Apart and UX Mastery.

In 2010, Matthew Keys was sacked as a web producer from FOX40.

“Although this case has drawn attention because of Matthew Keys’ employment in the news media, this was simply a case about a disgruntled employee who used his technical skills to taunt and torment his former employer”, U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner said in a statement, according to the AP. “Although he did no lasting damage, Keys did interfere with the business of news organizations, and caused the Tribune Company to spend thousands of dollars protecting its servers”.