Cameron John Wagenius, 22, a former Army soldier stationed in Texas and known by the alias "kiberphant0m," was sentenced on September 25, 2026 to 70 months in federal prison for a months-long hacking and extortion scheme that exposed sensitive data of a U.S. government official. He was also ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution.
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Cameron John Wagenius, 22, a former Army soldier who was most recently stationed in Texas, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution for conspiring to hack into telecommunications companies’ databases, access sensitive records, and extort the companies by threatening to release the stolen data unless ransoms were paid.
🚨 🇺🇸 Former U.S. soldier "kiberphant0m" sentenced to 70 months for telecom hacking and extortion Cameron John Wagenius, 22, has been sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution. ⠀ The Justice Department says Wagenius and his co-conspirators targeted at least 10 organizations and attempted to extort at least $1 million. The activity occurred wh
Cameron Wagenius took part in a months-long scheme to steal sensitive data and ransom it off, while an active-duty Army soldier. The post Former Fort Hood soldier sentenced to nearly six years for hacking, extortion plot appeared first on Task & Purpose .