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DOJ confirms arrested US Army soldier is linked to AT&T and Verizon hacks | TechCrunch

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Cameron John Wagenius , a U.S. Army communications specialist, was arrested in Texas on December 20 .

He was charged with unlawfully transferring confidential phone records from AT&T and Verizon last year .

Prosecutors have now formally linked the arrest to the massive data theft at cloud computing company Snowflake.

The Snowflake hackers allegedly stole huge banks of personal data that companies stored in Snowflake accounts.

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