US soldier arrested after allegedly posting hacked Trump and Harris call logs

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

The indictment doesn’t item the hacked material, but KrebsOnSecurity reports that Wagenius appears to beryllium connected to a bid of high-profile information breaches linked to the online alias “Kiberphant0m.” Kiberphant0m claimed to person hacked 15 telecom firms and was moving with the idiosyncratic allegedly down the Snowflake information breach to merchantability the 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 wide if the information was genuine, but AT&T did endure a major theft of lawsuit data arsenic portion of the Snowflake breach past year. In 2023, the hacker is besides alleged to person sold “remote entree credentials for a large U.S. defence contractor,” according to Krebs.

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

Cybersecurity experts reportedly received harassment for trying to way down Kiberphant0m’s identity, starring to this unthinkable punctuation from Allison Nixon, the pb researcher astatine cybersecurity steadfast Unit 221B, who was portion of the work. “Anonymously extorting the President and VP arsenic a subordinate of the subject is simply a atrocious idea,” Nixon told Krebs, “but it’s an adjacent worse thought to harass radical who specialize successful de-anonymizing cybercriminals.”