US Army Soldier Pleads Guilty To AT&T and Verizon Hacks (techcrunch.com) 21
Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking AT&T and Verizon and stealing a massive trove of phone records from the companies, according to court records filed on Wednesday. From a report: Wagenius, who was a U.S. Army soldier, pleaded guilty to two counts of "unlawful transfer of confidential phone records information" on an online forum and via an online communications platform.
According to a document filed by Wagenius' lawyer, he faces a maximum fine of $250,000 and prison time of up to 10 years for each of the two counts. Wagenius was arrested and indicted last year. In January, U.S. prosecutors confirmed that the charges brought against Wagenius were linked to the indictment of Connor Moucka and John Binns, two alleged hackers whom the U.S. government accused of several data breaches against cloud computing services company Snowflake, which were among the worst hacks of 2024.
According to a document filed by Wagenius' lawyer, he faces a maximum fine of $250,000 and prison time of up to 10 years for each of the two counts. Wagenius was arrested and indicted last year. In January, U.S. prosecutors confirmed that the charges brought against Wagenius were linked to the indictment of Connor Moucka and John Binns, two alleged hackers whom the U.S. government accused of several data breaches against cloud computing services company Snowflake, which were among the worst hacks of 2024.
Woz and Jobs would have been prisoners... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Yeah sure, your 'girlfriend' you say.
Thanks for the 'insight' hillary.
Wooooosh!
"...but her females!"
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The reason they got away with it was because everyone else was doing it. Jobs only knew about phone phreaking from the Esquire article on the topic - he read the article over the phone to Woz and Woz was the one who designed the hardware. Ironically Woz's design was all digital and worked far better for it than analog blue boxes.
But it was the publication of that article that basically had the entire world doing it, and many people rema
Damnit! (Score:3)
You can't just go stealing AT&Ts property for your own use. It belongs to them. To sell to whomever they see fit.
Name doesn't check (Score:1)
Wagenius? More like Nogenius.
acted like he could not be caught (Score:5, Informative)
He was asking to be caught.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/20... [krebsonsecurity.com]
Concerning (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe he should have stored the documents in a country club. Nothing happens when you do that.
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Maybe he should have stored the documents in a country club. Nothing happens when you do that.
I think that guy was just too cheap to buy toilet paper and/or was just used to flushing documents [cnn.com] ... :-)
(classified files are now quilted for a reason)
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Trunk of his Corvette.
Don't know how they got there. Hunter borrowed the car over the weekend.
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Maybe he should have stored the documents in a country club. Nothing happens when you do that.
Or a bathroom server.
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This passes the covfefe test.
Next step (Score:3)
Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking AT&T and Verizon and stealing a massive trove of phone records from the companies, ...
He'll be sending his resume to DOGE -- to help with all our SSA and IRS data (that they need, for some reason).
(And before anyone starts... Tens of millions of dead people aren’t getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims [apnews.com])
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And shortly, tens of millions of live people won't be getting their Social Security checks despite la Presidenta's and Elmo's claims.
That would be treason (Score:2)
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Get elected president?
Should be a count per record (Score:2)
two counts of "unlawful transfer of confidential phone records information" on an online forum
It should not be just 2 counts. It's not ATT's data the ****** transferred. It's AT&T customers' call records. Each customer whose records got transferred should be a 'count' here.
And $250k is not enough reparation for this crime. This should be a minimum of $1000 in reparations against each victim for the exposure of some of your most personal data (who your friends or contacts are).