Cameron John Wagenius has entered a guilty plea for hacking into AT&T and Verizon, resulting in the theft of a significant amount of phone records from these companies, as indicated in court records filed on Wednesday.
Wagenius, a U.S. Army soldier, admitted to two counts of unlawfully transferring confidential phone records information on an online forum and through an online communications platform. According to a document submitted by his lawyer, Wagenius faces penalties including a maximum fine of $250,000 and up to ten years of imprisonment for each of the two counts.
Wagenius was arrested and indicted last year. In January, U.S. prosecutors confirmed that the charges against him were related to the indictment of Connor Moucka and John Binns. These individuals are alleged hackers accused by the U.S. government of numerous data breaches against cloud computing services company Snowflake, among other targets, marking some of the severe hacks of 2024.
Last month, U.S. attorney Tessa Gorman informed the court that the breaches involving AT&T and Verizon originated from the same computer intrusion and extortion incidents and included some of the same stolen information. She further clarified that these cases share overlapping evidentiary and legal processes, suggesting Wagenius’s involvement in the Snowflake breaches.
The breaches into Snowflake instances led hackers to steal substantial data from several companies, including AT&T, LendingTree, Santander Bank, Ticketmaster, and at least 160 other entities.