U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions

Federal authorities arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army communications specialist alleged to be the cybercriminal 'Kiberphant0m', accused of stealing and selling sensitive call logs from AT&T and Verizon and posting threats to leak presidential and vice-presidential call records. The report links him to broader criminal activity — including selling remote access credentials, operating a botnet for DDoS, offering SIM-swap services targeting Verizon push-to-talk customers (used by government and first responders), and collaboration with another arrested actor tied to Snowflake data theft — and describes rapid law enforcement response and de-anonymization by security researchers.