Cameron Wagenius appears in an undated Facebook photo.
A U.S. Army solder accused of attempting to extort AT&T by threatening to expose the confidential call records of high-profile politicians was arrested by police in Texas earlier this month, The Desk has learned.
Cameron John Wagenius was detained by federal law enforcement authorities in Waco on December 20, two days after a grand jury in Washington state indicted him on two criminal counts related to the unauthorized collection and attempted distribution of confidential phone records, including those connected to officials close to President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
The records were stolen from computer networks run by Snowflake, a cloud storage service used by AT&T and a number of other companies. In court records reviewed by The Desk, Wagenius is not accused of targeting Snowflake directly, but investigators believe he used the name “Kiberphant0m” in an online forum...
A U.S. Army solder accused of attempting to extort AT&T by threatening to expose the confidential call records of high-profile politicians was arrested by police in Texas earlier this month, The Desk has learned.
Cameron John Wagenius was detained by federal law enforcement authorities in Waco on December 20, two days after a grand jury in Washington state indicted him on two criminal counts related to the unauthorized collection and attempted distribution of confidential phone records, including those connected to officials close to President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
The records were stolen from computer networks run by Snowflake, a cloud storage service used by AT&T and a number of other companies. In court records reviewed by The Desk, Wagenius is not accused of targeting Snowflake directly, but investigators believe he used the name “Kiberphant0m” in an online forum...
- 12/30/2024
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
An AT&T retail store.
Police in Canada have arrested a person who is suspected of stealing customer information from around 165 companies that utilized cloud storage services from Montana-based Snowflake.
The person, Alexander “Connor” Moucka, was arrested on October 30 at the request of federal law enforcement in the United States, according to reports from Bloomberg and 404 Media, the latter of which disclosed several online identities purportedly used by Moucka and disclosed that the individual had been in contact with a reporter before going dark several weeks ago.
Moucka is suspected of carrying out a sophisticated cyberattack against Snowflake that opened the door for him to obtain vast troves of data from its clients, including customer records connected to AT&T, Ticketmaster, Advanced Auto parts, Santander Bank and a Lending Tree subsidiary business.
According to Google cybersecurity subsidiary Mandiant, Moucka is suspected of working with an American man named John Binns, who...
Police in Canada have arrested a person who is suspected of stealing customer information from around 165 companies that utilized cloud storage services from Montana-based Snowflake.
The person, Alexander “Connor” Moucka, was arrested on October 30 at the request of federal law enforcement in the United States, according to reports from Bloomberg and 404 Media, the latter of which disclosed several online identities purportedly used by Moucka and disclosed that the individual had been in contact with a reporter before going dark several weeks ago.
Moucka is suspected of carrying out a sophisticated cyberattack against Snowflake that opened the door for him to obtain vast troves of data from its clients, including customer records connected to AT&T, Ticketmaster, Advanced Auto parts, Santander Bank and a Lending Tree subsidiary business.
According to Google cybersecurity subsidiary Mandiant, Moucka is suspected of working with an American man named John Binns, who...
- 11/7/2024
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
An AT&T retail store.
An American citizen who was arrested in Turkey earlier this year after affirming his role in a massive security incident involving T-Mobile has been linked to a newly-revealed data breach involving nearly all of AT&T’s customers two years ago, The Desk has learned.
Federal authorities believe John Binns, 24, is one of several individuals who conspired to steal logs pertaining to phone calls and text messages sent and received by AT&T wireless customers in 2022, according to a person familiar with the matter.
AT&T revealed the data breach on Friday, affirming an unknown number of hackers had illegal access to a subset of its customer data. At least one person has been arrested in connection with the scheme, the New York Times reported on Friday.
The Desk can confirm that Binns is the person who was arrested, though his detention in Turkey was originally...
An American citizen who was arrested in Turkey earlier this year after affirming his role in a massive security incident involving T-Mobile has been linked to a newly-revealed data breach involving nearly all of AT&T’s customers two years ago, The Desk has learned.
Federal authorities believe John Binns, 24, is one of several individuals who conspired to steal logs pertaining to phone calls and text messages sent and received by AT&T wireless customers in 2022, according to a person familiar with the matter.
AT&T revealed the data breach on Friday, affirming an unknown number of hackers had illegal access to a subset of its customer data. At least one person has been arrested in connection with the scheme, the New York Times reported on Friday.
The Desk can confirm that Binns is the person who was arrested, though his detention in Turkey was originally...
- 7/12/2024
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
A T-Mobile retail store in downtown Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Matthew Keys for The Desk)
An American man living in Turkey was arrested earlier this month and is in the process of being extradited to the United States to face charges of hacking into a computer system used by T-Mobile, The Desk has learned.
John Binns, 24, was detained by Turkish authorities after a local court approved an extradition request by federal prosecutors in the U.S., according to two sources familiar with the matter.
In January, The Desk reported Binns was indicted on 12 counts related to unauthorized access to computer systems used by T-Mobile back in 2021. Then, Binns digitally poked around T-Mobile’s servers until he found a hole, and was able to exploit the security issue in order to download records connected to tens of millions of T-Mobile’s current and former wireless subscribers.
Binns acknowledged trespassing into computer networks used by T-Mobile,...
An American man living in Turkey was arrested earlier this month and is in the process of being extradited to the United States to face charges of hacking into a computer system used by T-Mobile, The Desk has learned.
John Binns, 24, was detained by Turkish authorities after a local court approved an extradition request by federal prosecutors in the U.S., according to two sources familiar with the matter.
In January, The Desk reported Binns was indicted on 12 counts related to unauthorized access to computer systems used by T-Mobile back in 2021. Then, Binns digitally poked around T-Mobile’s servers until he found a hole, and was able to exploit the security issue in order to download records connected to tens of millions of T-Mobile’s current and former wireless subscribers.
Binns acknowledged trespassing into computer networks used by T-Mobile,...
- 5/27/2024
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
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