The Department of Justice has connected the arrest of U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius to a major hack of AT&T and Verizon in 2024, which compromised millions of phone records and affected over 160 companies.

The hack exploited weak cybersecurity measures, including a lack of multi-factor authentication, to steal sensitive data.

Wagenius, arrested in December 2024, is also linked to a previous breach involving Snowflake, a cloud-computing platform.

Prosecutors revealed that the stolen data included extensive customer logs from AT&T and Verizon.

Wagenius, 20, served at Fort Cavazos, Texas, and his role in the Army remains unclear in relation to the crime, Newsweek has reported.

The U.S. Treasury Department has also recently sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company tied to similar hacking activities.

Written by B.C. Begley