21-Year-Old Soldier Hacked Databases, Threatened to Leak Stolen Data, Feds Say
A now-former U.S. Army soldier has pleaded guilty to a hacking and extortion scheme in which federal prosecutors said he stole data from 10 telecommunications companies’ databases, then threatened to leak the data “unless ransoms were paid.” While on active duty, Cameron John Wagenius, 21, and others working with him hacked into the companies’ protected […]