“SACRAMENTO (Reuters) – Former Reuters.com Deputy Social Media Editor Matthew Keys pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal charges that he aided members of the Anonymous hacking collective.
Keys, 26, on Monday said he was fired by Thomson Reuters , the parent company of Reuters News.
Keys was indicted in March by a federal grand jury in Sacramento on three criminal counts, alleging he entered an Internet chatroom used by members of the hacking collective Anonymous and helped hackers gain access to the computer system of Tribune Co. in December 2010. A story on the Tribune’s Los Angeles Times website was altered by one of those hackers, the indictment said.
The alleged events occurred before he joined Reuters in 2012, the indictment indicated….”
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