Reuters Employee Charged With Helping Anonymous Hack News Site

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/reuters-employee-indicted/

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
03.14.13

An online social media editor for the Reuters news agency has been indicted for 
allegedly helping members of Anonymous hack another media organization’s 
network.

The editor was outed by the prominent former member of Anonymous known as Sabu 
who became a snitch for the FBI following his own arrest last year.

Matthew Keys, a 26-year-old deputy social media editor for Reuters in New York, 
allegedly provided log-in credentials for a server owned by the Tribune 
Company, his former employer, and encouraged members of Anonymous to use the 
credentials to “go fuck some shit up.”

According to the indictment (.pdf), Keys, who used the Twitter handle 
@ProducerMatthew, had been working as a web producer for television station 
KTXL FOX 40 in Sacramento, which is owned by the Tribune Company, when he lost 
his job in late October 2010.

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