Cameron John Wagenius pleaded responsible to hacking AT&T and Verizon and stealing an enormous trove of telephone information from the businesses, in line with court docket records filed on Wednesday.
Wagenius, who was a U.S. Military soldier, pleaded responsible to 2 counts of “illegal switch of confidential telephone information info” on an internet discussion board and by way of an internet communications platform. In accordance with a document filed by Wagenius’ lawyer, he faces a most wonderful of $250,000 and jail time of as much as 10 years for every of the 2 counts.
Wagenius was arrested and indicted final yr. In January, U.S. prosecutors confirmed that the fees introduced in opposition to 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 information breaches in opposition to cloud computing companies firm Snowflake, which have been among the many worst hacks of 2024.
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Final month, U.S. legal professional Tessa Gorman informed the court docket that each the AT&T and Verizon breaches “come up from the identical laptop intrusion and extortion and embody a number of the similar stolen sufferer info.” She added that “these instances depend on overlapping evidentiary materials and authorized course of and arguably current widespread questions of legislation and truth,” which successfully confirmed that Wagenius was concerned within the Snowflake breaches.
By hacking into Snowflake situations, hackers stole troves of information from AT&T, LendingTree, Santander Financial institution, Ticketmaster, and a minimum of 160 different corporations.