Journalist gets two-year sentence for helping Anonymous hack LA Times

Matthew Keys was convicted of giving login credentials to the hacking group, in a decision civil liberties group calls 'prosecutorial discretion run amok'

Matthew Keys, a journalist found guilty of conspiring with hacking group Anonymous to break into the Los Angeles Times website, was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday in a case that has sparked national debate about how the US prosecutes hacking offenses.

Keys, who was found guilty of three criminal counts in October, was convicted of giving Anonymous login credentials to the computer system of the Tribune Company, which owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and other media companies.