A U.S. Army soldier has been charged with promoting confidential cellphone data.
Cameron John Wagenius, 20, was charged by federal authorities in Texas with two counts of illegal switch of confidential cellphone data data on Dec. 20 and the indictment was unsealed this week.
Wagenius was a soldier at Fort Cavazos in Texas. Court data didn’t specify his rank.
He was allegedly linked to the web 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’ cellphone data, Reuters reported, citing cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images; Annabelle Gordon/UPI/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
He was allegedly linked to the web 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’ cellphone 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 line 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 cellphone (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
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The indictment accuses Wagenius of promoting “confidential cellphone data” on-line.
“We are conscious of the arrest of a Fort Cavazos soldier,” Fort Cavazos instructed Fox News Digital. “III Armored Corps will proceed to cooperate with all regulation enforcement companies as applicable.”
“We are conscious of the arrest of a Fort Cavazos soldier,” Fort Cavazos instructed Fox News Digital. “III Armored Corps will proceed to cooperate with all regulation enforcement companies as applicable.” (U.S. Army)
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Department 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.
