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 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 work του, το FBI υποστηρίζει ότι ο κ Keys συνδέθηκε σε ένα με IRC κανάλι (#internetfeds) με το ψευδώνυμο AESCracked και ήρθε σε επαφή με άλλους χρήστες που ισχυρίζονταν ότι ήταν μέλη της ομάδας hacking LulzSec.
Keys allegedly gave his former company's CMS login credentials to hackers, saying: "I did not give you these codes."
The hackers used the name and password Keys gave them to log into Tribune Media's CMS and change the title of one of its articles. 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 Webmasters of the LA Times was notified and reverted to its original headline.
The federal investigation that began then led to Keys in 2013. Authorities seized his laptop, and charged him with three separate counts of hacking: conspiracy, hacking, and distribution of code. access.
