The United States has arrested a US Army soldier and accused him of being part of a hacking scheme to sell and distribute stolen phone records. The indictment alleges that 20-year-old Cameron John Wegenius knowingly sold “confidential phone records” on online forums and other communications platforms last November.
The indictment does not detail the hacked material, but krebsonsecurity reports Vaganus appears to be linked to a series of high-profile data breaches involving the online alias “cyberfant0m.” Cyberphant0m claims to have hacked 15 telecom companies and is reportedly working with the person behind it snowflake data breach To sell stolen information.
In November, Cyberphant0m posted what he claimed were AT&T call logs for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. It's not clear whether the data was real or not, but AT&T suffered a loss Major theft of customer data As part of the Snowflake breach last year. In 2023, the hacker is also accused of selling “remote access credentials for a major US defense contractor.” crabs,
crabs The report said Wegenius worked in communications at an Army base in South Korea. After the alleged leak of Trump and Harris data, crabs deep dive Cyberphant0m's online communications and identified that he was possibly a US soldier. In this latest report, crabs Spoke to Wegenius' mother, who confirmed his connection to the alleged Snowflake hacker.
Cybersecurity experts reportedly faced harassment for trying to uncover the identity of Cyberphant0m, leading to this incredible quote from Alison Nixon, a lead researcher at cybersecurity firm Unit 221B who was part of the work. Nixon reported, “It is a bad idea to anonymously extort the President and Vice President as members of the military.” crabs“But it's an even worse idea to harass the people who specialize in anonymizing cybercriminals.”