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Journalist Who Aided Hacker Group Fights 7 Year Prison Sentence

January 13, 2016

A journalist who aided hacker group Anonymous in defacing the Los Angeles Times’ website in 2010 is fighting a probation office recommendation that he spend more than seven years in prison. Matthew Keys was the social media editor for Reuters and a web producer at a Fox TV affiliate when he gave Anonymous a login that allowed them to change a headline on the Los Angeles Times’ website for about 40 minutes. In a pre-sentencing report from the U.S. District Court in Sacramento, the probation officer proposed an 87-month sentence. “Imposing a sentence of over seven years and roughly $250,000 in speculative restitution is a draconian sentence for a minor occurrence that could have been more appropriately handled by a civil lawsuit instead of three federal felony criminal convictions,” Keys’ lawyers wrote in a filing.

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