- An American army soldier faces charges related to snowflake hacking
- The accused risks $ 500,000 in fines and 20 years behind bars
- The soldier intends to plead guilty to all accusations
An American army soldier accused of two charges of illegally transferred confidential telephone files that he intended to plead guilty.
The soldier tried to “sell and knowingly and intentionally transferring, and trying to sell and transfer, confidential telephone files,” said American prosecutors [PDF].
Cameron John Wagenius, the accused, informed a federal court of Seattle of his plea on Wednesday following his arrest in January 2025. Prosecutors also found links between the Wagenius attacks against At & T and Verizon, with the hacking of Flocon of 2024 which saw more than 150 compromise accounts.
Up to 10 years in prison
According to documents filed by his lawyer. The involvement of Wagenius in the hacks of snowflakes, alongside Connor Moucka and John Binns, was confirmed by the prosecutors in January, which linked methods used the AT&T and Verizon attacks on the violations of the snow account.
The American lawyer, Tessa Gorman, said that the violations “arise from the same intrusion and the same extortion and include some of the same information on the stolen victim”. The attack on Snowflake was among the worst cyber attacks of 2024, with corporate accounts linked to AT&T, Santander and Ticketmaster Compromis, Moucka and Binns would have increased more than $ 2 million by extortion.
In the underground world, Wagenius has used the pseudonym ‘Kiberphant0m’, the same alias which threatened to disclose sensitive American government’s appeal newspapers when one of its co-conspirators of the snowflake attack was Arrested.
Kiberphant0m asked for communications with AT&T, writing on a dark web forum which, “in case you do not contact, [AT&T]All call newspapers of the presidential government will be disclosed. You do not think we have no plans in case of arrest? Be careful again.
Mouca, who was arrested in Canada, and Binns, who was arrested in Turkey, are both waiting for an extradition to the United States, where they face 20 various crimes, including the conspiracy, fraud and abuses IT, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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