Feds charge Reuters employee with hacking

A social-media editor for the Reuters news agency was charged Thursday with conspiring with the hacker group "Anonymous" to hack into and alter an online Tribune Company news story, the Justice Department said.

The Los Angeles Times reported that the case involved an attempt to change an online version of one of its stories. Matthew Keys, 26, of Secaucus (NJ), was named in an indictment in the Eastern District of California. He was charged with one count each of transmitting information to damage a protected computer, attempted transmission and conspiracy, the Justice Department said. Keys worked for a Sacramento television station, KTXL Fox40, as a Web producer until he was fired in October 2010, the department said. The station and Los Angeles Times are owned by the Tribune company. The indictment alleges that two months after leaving the TV station, Keys provided members of the hacker group Anonymous with log-in credentials to a Tribune Co. computer server.