Cameron John Wagenius pleaded responsible to hacking AT&T and Verizon and stealing an enormous trove of cellphone information from the businesses, in response to courtroom information filed on Wednesday.
Wagenius, who was a U.S. Military soldier, pleaded responsible to 2 counts of “illegal switch of confidential cellphone information data” on a web based discussion board and by way of a web based communications platform. In keeping with a doc filed by Wagenius’ lawyer, he faces a most positive of $250,000 and jail time of as much as ten years for every of the 2 counts.
Wagenius was arrested and indicted final yr. In January, U.S. prosecutors confirmed that the costs introduced towards Wagenius have been linked to the indictment of Connor Moucka and John Binns, two alleged hackers whom the U.S. authorities accused of a number of data breaches towards cloud computing providers firm Snowflake, which have been among the many worst hacks of 2024.
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Final month, U.S. lawyer Tessa Gorman advised the courtroom that each the AT&T and Verizon breaches “come up from the identical laptop intrusion and extortion and embody a number of the identical stolen sufferer data.” She added that “these circumstances depend on overlapping evidentiary materials and authorized course of and arguably current widespread questions of legislation and reality,” which successfully confirmed that Wagenius was concerned within the Snowflake breaches.
By hacking into Snowflake cases, hackers stole troves of knowledge from AT&T, LendingTree, Santander Financial institution, Ticketmaster, and at the very least 160 different firms.
