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Journalist gets two years in prison for hacking L.A.Times computers

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Dissent

Denny Walsh reports:

Matthew Keys, whose rapid rise as a social media news reporter began and ended in Sacramento, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on a jury’s verdict in October that he conspired with the hacking group Anonymous to break into the Los Angeles Times’ website and alter a news story.

At the conclusion of a hearing that stretched from late morning to mid-afternoon, U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller ordered Keys, 29, to surrender June 15 to begin serving the prison term.

The judge set a June 8 hearing on the amount of restitution Keys should be ordered to pay.

Read more on Sacramento Bee.

Although it was not mentioned in this report, “Sharpie,” who was never charged with the crime, was allegedly Sabu, who became an informant after he was arrested in 2011.

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