Secaucus journalist indicted on charges for helping hack Tribune Company website
Last updated: Friday March 15, 2013, 12:03 AM
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITER
The Record
A Secaucus man was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in California on charges that he helped hackers break into the Los Angeles Times’ website after he had been fired by the company that owns the newspaper, authorities said.
Matthew Keys, 26, was fired from his job as a web producer for a Sacramento, Calif., television station, KTXL-FOX 40, in October 2010, two months before he provided members of a hackers group called Anonymous with a username and a password to help them log onto the website of the Tribune Company, Justice Department officials said in a statement.
At least one of the hackers was able to break into the website and make changes to a Los Angeles Times feature story, authorities said. Keys allegedly wrote a favorable response on an Internet chat site when he learned of the hacker’s success.
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