Cameron John Wagenius, 21, a former Army soldier most recently stationed in Texas, pleaded guilty on July 15 to conspiring to hack into telecommunications companies’ databases, access sensitive records, and extort telecommunications companies by threatening to release the stolen data unless ransoms were paid. According to court documents, between April 2023 and Dec. 18, 2024,…
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U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions
Brian Krebs reports: Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon. As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, the accused is a communications specialist who was recently stationed in South Korea….