Mr Keys, now 29, reportedly supplied his log-in details for the Los Angeles Times website to the political hacking group as an act of retaliation after losing his job at KTXL, which is owned by the same parent company as the newspaper.
The maximum penalty for his crime, defined as felony conspiracy under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 1986, was 25 years imprisonment. However, Mr Key's attorney, Jay Lierderman, has been adamant that the journalist, who was just 22 years old when he hack occurred, shouldn't receive any jail time.
'He shouldn't be doing a day in jail,' he told an LA Times reporter after Mr Key's conviction last year. 'With love and respect, [The Times'] story was defaced for 40 minutes when someone found it and fixed it in three minutes. What do you want, a year per minute?'
However, that government countered that Mr Keys had acted from a place of malice and had intended to do more harm than was actually inflicted. In a letter read to the court, a former KTXL news director calls Mr Keys 'a terrorist'.
Source: ABA Journal
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