Earlier today , a Sacramento jury set up former Reuters social medium handler Matthew Keys guilty on three counts of computer hacking .
The charges related to a2010 incident , where Keys posted login credentials to the content management of the Tribune Company to an Anonymous chatroom . The Tribune Company owned properties include the LA Times , which was subsequently vandalize .
Reuters Employee Exposed as Alleged Anonymous Agent ( Updating )
The prosecutors claim that by Keys handing the logins over to a grouping of notorious hackers — and , grant to the earlier explosive charge , encourage them to ‘ fuck shit up’—he was conspiring to hack , as well as transmitting ‘ malicious code ’ over the cyberspace .
Keys has paint the example as a ‘ diary keeper vs the government activity ’ struggle , but the jury come up down in favour of the governance . The statutory maximum for Keys ’s three criminal offense is 25 eld , but according to a reputation onMotherboard , the prosecuting attorney will likely necessitate for “ less than five years ” . As a authorities spokesperson sound out : it ’s not incisively the offense of the century .
[ Motherboard ]
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