Us Soldier Arrested After Allegedly Posting Hacked Trump And Harris Call Logs

The United States has arrested a US Army worker and charged him pinch being information of a hacking strategy to discarded and administer stolen telephone records. An indictment alleges that 20-year-old Cameron John Wagenius knowingly sold “confidential telephone records” complete online forums and different communications platforms past November.

The indictment doesn’t point nan hacked material, but KrebsOnSecurity reports that Wagenius appears to beryllium connected to a bid of high-profile accusation breaches linked to nan online othername “Kiberphant0m.” Kiberphant0m claimed to personification hacked 15 telecom firms and was moving pinch nan personification allegedly down nan Snowflake accusation breach to discarded nan stolen information.

In November, Kiberphant0m posted what they claimed were AT&T telephone logs for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. It’s not clear if nan accusation was genuine, but AT&T did suffer a awesome theft of customer information arsenic information of nan Snowflake breach past year. In 2023, nan hacker is too alleged to personification sold “remote entree credentials for a awesome U.S. defense contractor,” according to Krebs.

Krebs reports that Wagenius worked connected communications astatine an Army guidelines successful South Korea. After nan alleged leak of Trump and Harris data, Krebs did a dense dive into Kiberphant0m’s online communications and identified that they were apt a US soldier. In this latest report, Krebs said pinch Wagenius’ mother, who confirmed his narration to nan alleged Snowflake hacker.

Cybersecurity experts reportedly received harassment for trying to measurement down Kiberphant0m’s identity, starring to this unthinkable quote from Allison Nixon, nan lead interrogator astatine cybersecurity diligent Unit 221B, who was information of nan work. “Anonymously extorting nan President and VP arsenic a unit of nan taxable is simply a bad idea,” Nixon told Krebs, “but it’s an moreover worse thought to harass group who specialize successful de-anonymizing cybercriminals.”