Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor at Thomson Reuters, was charged for allegedly conspiring with hacker group Anonymous to hack his previous employer, The Tribune Company, according to a Department of Justice release Thursday.
Keys, 26, was employed by Sacramento-based television station KTXL FOX 40 as its web producer, but was terminated in late October 2010. The DOJ indictment alleges that in December 2010 Keys provided members of the hacker group Anonymous with log-in credentials for a computer server belonging to the station's corporate parent, the Tribune Company.