Reuters social media editor charged with hacking.

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Federal charges were filed in March against Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor for Reuters, for allegedly conspiring to hack the Los Angeles Times website in 2010.

Keys is accused of giving the website's password to the notorious hacker group "Anonymous" through its chat room, encouraging the group to breach the newspaper's website. One of the hackers followed up and altered an archived article. The Los Angeles Times is owned by the Tribune Co., which also owns a Sacramento television station at which Keys used to work as a web producer.

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