U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions – Krebs on Security

A U.S. Army soldier, Cameron John Wagenius, who used the alias Kiberphant0m, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution for hacking into telecom companies via Snowflake accounts lacking MFA, stealing call and text metadata from over 100 million AT&T customers, and extorting AT&T, Verizon, and other carriers. He also threatened to leak NSA schematics and call logs of political figures. While awaiting sentencing, he was caught trying to use fellow inmates' email accounts to prompt AI tools for working exploit code for Windows privilege escalation CVEs and a D-Link command injection vulnerability (CVE-2023-45208), disguising the requests as research for a book he claimed to be writing - a form of prompt injection. Despite the scale of the breach, he reportedly earned only about $1,500 from selling the stolen data.

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