U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions
Summary: Federal authorities arrested and indicted 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius near Fort Hood, Texas on Dec. 20 on two counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records, on suspicion of being the cybercriminal Kiberphant0m who sold and leaked call records stolen from AT&T and Verizon. Kiberphant0m claimed on Telegram to have hacked at least 15 telecommunications firms and posted what were claimed to be AT&T call logs for President-elect Trump and Vice President Harris, plus a claimed NSA data schema and Verizon push-to-talk customer call logs.
Bottom line: The accused was a communications specialist stationed in South Korea who, per researcher Allison Nixon, went from an opsec mistake found on November 10 to his last Telegram activity on December 6 - a turnaround she called the fastest she has seen in an American federal cyber case, which is the timeline any insider threat program is actually racing against.
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