Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier
Summary: Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting companies using Snowflake, while a third suspect known as Kiberphant0m remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. A review of Kiberphant0m's chats across multiple cybercrime personas suggests they are a U.S. Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea, and the hacker posted what they claimed were AT&T call logs for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris after the arrest of suspect Alexander Moucka.
What's compelling: The suspect is alleged to have sold access to U.S. government servers and posted claimed AT&T call logs for the President-elect and Vice President, while AT&T reportedly paid $370,000 to delete stolen phone records covering roughly 110 million people.
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