A reader comment on Schneier on Security discusses the arrest of a suspect in a case involving the hacking of FBI systems. The comment cites Reuters reporting that the person involved was a contractor working for Accenture, and that the bureau says it has "removed the contractor" and taken steps to protect its workforce. The commenter, Cl…
U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius (alias Kiberphant0m), 22, was sentenced in Seattle to 70 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution. He had pleaded guilty to hacking multiple telecommunications companies and stealing call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024. Working with co-c…
The Eclipse leak site has listed Taiwan Otsuka Pharmaceutical, a Taiwan-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, and claims to hold about 832 GB of internal company data. The victim page shows a countdown to a claimed publication deadline. The listing gives examples of allegedly stolen material across many business functions, including finance,…
A BushidoToken journal entry reviews four 2026 UK prosecutions involving teenage offenders at the intersection of cybercrime and online extremism. In July 2026, Thalha Jubair (20) and Owen Flowers (18), part of the Scattered Spider collective, were each sentenced to five years and six months for the late August 2024 breach of Transport fo…