The United States has arrested a U.S. Army soldier and charged him with participating in a hacking program aimed toward selling and distributing stolen phone records. The indictment alleges that last November, 20-year-old Cameron John Wagenius knowingly sold “confidential telephone records” on online forums and other communication platforms.
The indictment doesn’t detail the fabric that was hacked, but reports that Wagenius appears to be linked to a series of high-profile data breaches linked to the web moniker “Kiberphant0m.” Kiberphant0m claimed to have hacked 15 telecommunications firms and worked with the person allegedly behind the Snowflake data breach to sell the stolen information.
In November, Kiberphant0m published what it claimed were AT&T call logs kept by President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. It’s unclear whether the info was authentic, but AT&T experienced a serious theft of customer data last 12 months consequently of the Snowflake account hack. According to .
reports that Wagenius was working on communications at a military base in South Korea. After the alleged leak of Trump and Harris data he dived deep to Kiberphant0m’s online communications and identified it was likely a US soldier. In the most recent report, he spoke to Wagenius’ mother, who confirmed his connection to the alleged Snowflake hacker.
Cybersecurity experts were reportedly harassed for attempting to track down Kiberphant0m’s identity, resulting in an incredible quote from Allison Nixon, principal investigator at cybersecurity firm Unit 221B, who was involved within the work. “Anonymously extorting money from the President and Vice President as members of the military is a bad idea,” Nixon said, “but it’s an even worse idea to harass people who specialize in deanonymizing cybercriminals.”
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