US soldier charged with Verizon and AT&T Hacks pleads guilty

Cameron John Vagenius, a former US Army Soldier, pleaded guilty for his role in Khaki, who suffered from AT&T and Verizon and led to theft of more than 100 million companies’ customers, According to Techcrunch. Vagenius, 20-year-old, placed in Texas, rose to two points of “illegal transmission of confidential information about telephone records” and will face a fine of up to $ 250,000 and up to 10 years in prison for each charges.

Vagenia was taken into custody last year after Accused For his predictable role in Khaki two major wireless operators. AT&T reported that the violation allowed Hacker to access “Almost all” records of their customers’ phonesincluding the history of calls and texts given by users during the six -month period in 2022. More than 110 million was reported as they were affected by their data. Verizon similarly reported that it has a significant collection of client call magazines.

It is believed that both khaki concerning the vaganius related to snowflakes, cloud services and data analysis provider. It is believed that Vagenius and his alleged accomplices were able to access data from AT&T, Verizon and more than 160 other companies including Ticketmaster and Landinger through unprotected accounts that had access to snowflake customers. Prosecutors affirm that hackers have been able to access everything from social security rooms and numbers to the driver to passport details and banking information.

There were also two people Accused About the evil snowflakes: Connor Pour and John Binns. According to the Ministry of Justice, they were able to steal “billions of confidential customer records” and successfully used this access to extort three victims, which eventually paid at least 36 bitcoin (estimated at $ 2.5 million at the time of payment). Their demanding campaign lasted from November 2023 to October 2024, shortly before they were accused and arrested.

The torment that lives in Canada did not evade the discussion of her role in Khaki. He was In communication with 404 media When he was arrested and reported that the publication believes that law enforcement officers were following him. Bins, an American who lived in Turkey, also did not evade the media. He took the direct merit for a violation of AT&T in Interview with The Wall Street Journal.

Vagenius, for comparison, was a little more shy-but, apparently not the strongest OPSEC Investigators such as Brian Krebs They were able to identify their identity on the basis of publications on the forum and online activity.