Trump Phone Hacker: 20-Year-Old U.S. Army Soldier Arrested
A U.S. Army soldier has been arrested and indicted on charges of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records following investigations into a 2024 hack that allegedly included the call logs of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Alleged Trump Phone Call Logs Hacker Arrested And Indicted
Following the potentially unauthorized access to some customer accounts on May 23, 2024, third-party cloud storage platform Snowflake determined that the incident was a targeted campaign directed at users with single-factor authentication. One of the men accused of being behind the compromise of these Snowflake-hosted accounts was arrested in November, after which a hacker known as Kiberphant0m bragged on dark web data sale site BreachForums about stealing AT&T call logs for President-elect Donald Trump and for Vice President Kamala Harris.
who was behind much of the initial investigation and reporting of the hack attacks involved, a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier has now been arrested and indicted on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m. “The accused,” Krebs said, “is a communications specialist who was recently stationed in South Korea.” The soldier, Cameron John Wagenius, was arrested Dec. 20 near the Army base in Fort Hood, Texas. The two-page indictment is brief with regard to specific details, to say the least. However, it stated that: “On or about November 6, 2024, in King County, within the Western District of Washington, and elsewhere, Cameron John Wegenius did, in interstate and foreign commerce, knowingly and intentionally sell and transfer, and attempt to sell and transfer, confidential phone records information of a covered entity, without prior authorization from the customer to whom such confidential phone records information related, and knowing and having reason to know such information was obtained fraudulently, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1039(b).”
🚨 Army Soldier Exposed as Alleged Trump Phone Hacker 🚨 Cameron John Wagenius, a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier, was arrested on Dec. 20 near Fort Hood, Texas.
Accused of being the notorious hacker “Kiberphant0m,” Wagenius allegedly leaked confidential phone records of Donald… https://t.co/O240iWGZ3l pic.twitter.com/3u8rm7C2om
— Marci McCarthy (@MarciMcCarthyUS) January 2, 2025
Allison Nixon, chief research officer at cybersecurity outfit Unit 221B, was one of the people who managed to track down Kiberphant0m and suffered ongoing threats and harassment as a result. “Anonymously extorting the President and VP as a member of the military is a bad idea,” Nixon told KrebsOnSecurity, “but it’s an even worse idea to harass people who specialize in de-anonymizing cybercriminals.”
This is how a Cybercriminal exploits phone calls to steal Data/OTP using IVR. pic.twitter.com/nycUUIf3OE
— Security Trybe (@SecurityTrybe) July 19, 2024