A former U.S. Army soldier has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for hacking and extorting at least 10 U.S. technology and telecommunications companies between April 2023 and December 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Cameron John Wagenius, 21, was arrested in Texas in December 2024. He pleaded guilty in February 2025 to hacking AT&T and Verizon, and in July 2025 to multiple counts including aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and extortion related to computer fraud.
Court documents say Wagenius and accomplices stole network login credentials using the SSH Brute hacking tool, which he helped develop. They used Telegram to transfer credentials and plan attacks. The Justice Department said the group threatened to post stolen data on cybercrime forums and offered some data for sale. It said the group attempted to extort at least $1 million from data owners and sold at least some of the stolen data.
Wagenius was also ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution. The source says two alleged accomplices, Connor Riley Moucka and John Erin Binns, were accused in November 2024 of breaching more than 165 organizations in a campaign involving Snowflake cloud storage services. It reports that Moucka pleaded guilty in August 2026.
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