Journalist Matthew Keys Indicted For Conspiring With Anonymous Hackers

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A former web producer for a Tribune Company-owned TV station in California was charged on Thursday for allegedly conspiring with members of the Anonymous to hack into a Tribune Company website. 

According to the Justice Department, Keys was employed by Sacramento-based television station KTXL FOX 40, until late October 2010. 

A Matthew Keys is currently deputy social media editor at Reuters, and his LinkedIn page sys he was employed at KTXL until October 2010. 

Read the full indictment here.

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