A US Army soldier was arrested in Texas for selling customer data stolen from AT&T and Verizon last year, according to KrebsonSecurity’s Brian Krebs.
Cameron John Wagenius, 20, was recently stationed as a communications specialist in South Korea and is believed to be the cybercriminal known as Kiberphant0m. In posts on Telegram, Kiberphant0m claimed to be responsible for hacking at least 15 telecommunications companies, including AT&T and Verizon.
The two-page indictment, posted by The Register, didn’t give away much, but in an interview with Krebs, Wagenius’ mother, Alicia Roen, said that before the arrest, Wagenius had admitted to being associated with Connor Riley Moucka, a.k.a. Judische. Moucka was arrested in late 2024 for stealing data from companies that used Snowflake’s cloud service.
In November, after Moucka’s arrest, Kiberphant0m went on BreachForums and bragged about possessing the AT&T call logs of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, Krebs says. Kiberphant0m then posted sales threads for call logs stolen from Verizon’s push-to-talk (PTT) customers, mainly US government agencies and emergency first responders.
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According to court documents, Wagenius has been charged with two criminal counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records.
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