Matthew Keys, a former Reuters employee, worked for Tribune Media (now called Tribune Publishing) and KTXL Fox 40, a Sacramento TV station in California. Keys was found guilty of three counts of piracy by a US court.
The events to be mentioned below were 2010 when Matthew Keys worked as a producer for Sacramento's TV station and a Reuters social media editor.
After he was fired from his job, the FBI alleges that Mr. Keys joined an IRC channel (#internetfeds) under the alias AESCracked and contacted other users who claimed to be members of the group hacking LulzSec.
Keys allegedly gave his former company's CMS login credentials to hackers, stating: "I didn't give you those codes."
The hackers used the name και τον κωδικό που τους έδωσε ο Keys για να συνδεθούν με το CMS της Tribune Media και να αλλάξουν τον τίτλο ενός άρθρου της 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 research that began then, led to Keys in 2013. Authorities seized his laptop, and charged him with three separate counts of hacking: conspiracy, hacking, and password disclosure.
