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Ex-Army soldier sentenced to 70 months for hacking AT&T, Verizon and other firms

Cameron John Wagenius, a former U.S. Army soldier known online as 'kiberphant0m,' was sentenced to 70 months in prison after pleading guilty to hacking and extorting at least 10 technology and telecommunications companies, including AT&T and Verizon, between April 2023 and December 2024. He was also ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution for stealing customer records and threatening to leak or sell the data unless victims paid ransoms.

bleepingcomputer.com · 2026-09-28

Army Soldier Sentenced to 70 Months for AT&T, Verizon Data Extortion

Cameron John Wagenius, a 22-year-old Army soldier who used the alias 'Kiberphant0m,' was sentenced to nearly seven years in federal prison and ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution. He had pleaded guilty to hacking into telecom companies via exposed Snowflake cloud credentials, stealing call and text metadata from more than 100 million AT&T customers and Verizon's Push-to-Talk business, then extorting the firms not to leak the data.

krebsonsecurity.com · 2026-09-25