Army Soldier Accused of Selling President-Elect Trump’s Call Logs on Dark Web

Authorities say a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier tried to sell stolen call logs of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, who will be president-elect and vice president, respectively. A charge against the soldier, Cameron John Wagenius, says he illegally shared private phone records information. The charge was made in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.

The accusation, which came out last month, doesn't go into specifics about the charges or name the victims. However, Krebs on Security, a cybersecurity news site that does in-depth investigations, tied Wagenius to “Kiberphant0m,” a known cybercriminal who hangs out in dark web forums and is said to have leaked stolen customer data from AT&T and Verizon.

On December 20, Wagenius was caught near Fort Cavazos, Texas. Investigations into an AT&T data breach that happened in 2022 are still going on. Sensitive call and text records were viewed through a third-party platform called Snowflake. AT&T stated that the stolen information did not include Social Security numbers, but it did say that the records did include personal text messages and call logs from May to October 2022.

When Wagenius was stationed at a U.S. Army base in South Korea, the Krebs report says he worked with radio signals and network connections. His mother, Alicia Roen, said that he had been stationed there before coming back to the United States.

Concerns have been made about the safety of private data and the part that insider threats play in cybercrime because of the accusations against Wagenius. The federal government is still looking into how big the breach was and what effects it might have on national security.

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