U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions

What happened

Kiberphant0m claimed to have hacked into more than dozen telecommunications companies worldwide, including Verizon’s Push-to-Talk business, and publicly extorted these companies in exchange for a promise not to publish the stolen data. In late November 2025, KrebsOnSecurity warned that Kiberphant0m was likely a U.S.

One of several selfies from the Facebook page of Cameron Wagenius. Cameron John Wagenius , 22, was stationed at a U.S.

In October 2024, Kiberphant0m bragged on the cybercrime forums that he’d stolen the call and text metadata (e.g. source and destination number, timestamp, duration, etc.) for tens of millions of AT&T customers.