Matthew Keys was a former Reuters employee who worked for Tribune Media (now Tribune Publishing) and KTXL Fox 40, a Sacramento, California television station. Keys was found guilty of three counts of piracy by a jury of USA.
The events we will mention below took place in 2010, when Matthew Keys was working as a producer for the Sacramento TV station, but also in charge of editing the social Reuters media.
When he was fired from his job, the FBI claimed Keys was linked to an IRC channel (#internetfeds) with the AESCracked nickname and contacted other users who claimed to be members of the LulzSec hacking team.
Keys allegedly gave his former company's CMS login credentials to hackers, saying: "I did not give you these codes."
Hackers used the name and password that Keys gave them to link to the Tribune Media CMS and change the title of an article in the Los Angeles Times.
This was possible due to the fact that Tribune Media CMS distributes news to all Tribune affiliates, not just to KTXL Fox 30.
The article remained distorted for 30 minutes until one of the LA Times webmasters was notified and restored its original title.
The federal investigation that began then led to Keys in 2013. Authorities seized it laptop and charged him with three different counts of hacking: conspiracy, hacking, and password disclosure.
