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A U.S. Army soldier who leveraged his position to orchestrate a sophisticated cyber-extortion campaign against major telecommunications providers—most notably compromising the metadata of over 100 million AT&T customers—was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today. The sentencing marks the conclusion of a high-profile investigation into a series of breaches that rattled the foundations of…

A U.S. Army soldier who leveraged his technical skills to orchestrate a sophisticated cyber-extortion campaign against global telecommunications giants has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison. Cameron John Wagenius, a 22-year-old service member who operated under the digital alias “Kiberphant0m,” was ordered by a federal judge in Seattle to serve nearly six years…

A U.S. Army soldier who leveraged his technical skills to orchestrate a sophisticated cyber-extortion campaign against major telecommunications companies has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison. Cameron John Wagenius, a 22-year-old active-duty soldier formerly stationed in South Korea, pleaded guilty to charges related to the theft of mobile call and text metadata belonging…