American soldier arrested for selling hacked telecom data linked to BSNL breach
Live MintUnited States soldier, Cameron John Wagenius, a communications specialist stationed in South Korea, who was arrested last month for trying to sell hacked data from American telecom companies, has now been linked to the BSNL hack in 2024, according to a Hindustan Times report. The Details The report said that Wagenius is likely to be “kiberphant0m”, who tried to sell 278 GB of sensitive BSNL data for $5,000 on Breached Forums, a popular dark web marketplace in May 2024. Progress Ongoing The government had in July 2024 said in Lok Sabha that one of BSNL’s servers were breached, and that the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team had reported this intrusion and breach on May 20, the report added. The report added that Allison Nixon, chief research officer of Unit 221B, a New York-based cybersecurity firm that helped establish Wagenius’s identity, confirmed he was the same person who had “posted a sales ad for illicit access” to the BSNL data.
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