Keys, a well-known figure in the Twitterverse, was charged Thursday with conspiring with the hacking group Anonymous to alter a Times news story in late 2010.
In a Thursday afternoon presentation titled "Hacking Capitalism" at the Black Hat conference, a gathering of computer security experts, they detailed weaknesses in applications using Financial Information eXchange Protocol, or FIX, a common language used in communications between banks and commercial markets.
Sue Akers, the deputy assistant commissioner leading the police's phone-hacking investigation, responded by issuing a statement Thursday that the police was continuing a recent effort to contact people whose details are included in the documents they seized in 2006.