A U.S. Military soldier has been charged with promoting confidential telephone data.
Cameron John Wagenius, 20, was charged by federal authorities in Texas with two counts of illegal switch of confidential telephone data info on Dec. 20 and the indictment was unsealed this week.
Wagenius was a soldier at Fort Cavazos in Texas. Court docket data didn’t specify his rank.
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He was allegedly linked to the net deal with Kiberphant0m, which was a part of a number of high-profile knowledge breaches, together with the Snowflake knowledge hacking, and which claimed to have hacked President-elect Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris’ telephone data, Reuters reported, citing cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Photographs; Annabelle Gordon/UPI/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
He was allegedly linked to the net deal with Kiberphant0m, which was a part of a number of high-profile knowledge breaches, together with the Snowflake knowledge hacking, and which claimed to have hacked President-elect Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris’ telephone data, Reuters reported, citing cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs.
The alleged AT&T name logs for the 2024 presidential candidates have been posted on-line in November, in accordance with The Verge, which famous that the decision logs had not been verified as real.
The indictment did not give particulars on the hacking.
Illustration of a scammer hacking into somebody’s telephone (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
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The indictment accuses Wagenius of promoting “confidential telephone data” on-line.
“We’re conscious of the arrest of a Fort Cavazos soldier,” Fort Cavazos informed Fox Information Digital. “III Armored Corps will proceed to cooperate with all regulation enforcement businesses as acceptable.”
“We’re conscious of the arrest of a Fort Cavazos soldier,” Fort Cavazos informed Fox Information Digital. “III Armored Corps will proceed to cooperate with all regulation enforcement businesses as acceptable.” (U.S. Military)
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the Division of Justice for remark.
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Wagenius will subsequent be extradited to Seattle the place the case is being dealt with.
Reuters contributed to this report.
