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Cameron LaCroix | |
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| Born | United States |
| Other names | camo, cam0, camZero, cmuNNY |
| Years active | c. 1999 – c. 2018 [1] |
| Known for | Hacking Paris Hilton's cell phone, accessing LexisNexis, and defacing Burger King's Twitter account |
Cameron LaCroix, aka camo, cam0, camZero, cmuNNY, is a cybersecurity student and former computer hacker from the United States best known for breaching Paris Hilton's cellular phone, [2] accessing LexisNexis, and defacing the twitter accounts of Jeep and Burger King back in 2013. [3] He was subsequently charged with obtaining unauthorized access to various computer systems, [4] Prosecutors said victims of the teen's actions have suffered about $1 million in damages. [3] Pursuant to a plea agreement signed by the juvenile in August 2005, he received 11 months in a federally-contracted juvenile detention facility. After release, he was barred from using any device similar to a computer which made it difficult to socialize and obtain employment. In January 2007 his supervised release was revoked for having a cell phone. [3]
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In July 2014 he was charged with additional offenses stemming from the account takeovers of Jeep and Burger King's twitter accounts. Jeep's account was defaced to falsely represent that it had been purchased by General Motors' Cadillac, while Burger King's indicated it had been sold to McDonalds. As a result of this criminal activity he was sentenced to a term of 48 months of incarceration on October 27, 2014. [5]
A week later he appeared on NBC's Today Show as a guest, interviewed by Jeff Rossen. He extended a public apology to Paris Hilton and reflected on his past. [6] The segment details an obsession with computers that formulated when he was 11 years old, 6 years after his mother had died from a drug overdose.
On November 19, 2025 a civil complaint was filed in the U.S District Court for the District of Massachusetts titled Lacroix v. Leatherman et al. [7] The claim filed by Mr. Lacroix details how intimate details of an undercover FBI operation were unintentionally leaked to him. Mr. Lacroix does not identify what the FBI was interested in but states that they hacked his wireless network, harassed him in public, and planted American Express Gift Cards in a Lyft that he rode in. The complaint includes the Government's misuse of a cell site simulator which may have impacted innocent customers of Mint Mobile. Privacy advocates have strongly opposed the use of the devices without a warrant. The case has been assigned to Magistrate Judge M. Page Kelley and is pending disposition under 1:25-cv-13452 [8] .
On December 2, 2025 the Court issued a summons to be served upon the defendants which include the Assistant Director of the Cyber Division Brett Leatherman and the Director of Operational Technology David Nanz. [9] The OTD sits under the bureau's Science & Technology arm and supports investigations involving digital evidence. OTD has been known to assist agents in the execution of sophisticated Rule 41 efforts involving the exploitation of digital evidence. [10] It is assumed that this is why Mr. Nanz would have been named responsible.
On December 8, 2025 Mr. Lacroix filed a motion for leave requesting permission for the Court to adopt a second amended complaint. The new complaint [11] included explosive details including not only the fact that an undercover agent had been arrested during the course of the investigation (which ordinarily must be reported to the Office of Professional Responsibility) but that he obtained audio recordings depicting an undercover agent discussing sensitive matters. According to Mr. Lacroix this agent was planted up on the 5th floor of Amazon's Boston office. He continues on to state the recording claimed that agents were closing in on Mr. Lacroix because sealing orders were about to expire. Even more shocking was the fact that the investigator claimed that they can do whatever they want to him because they were able to pin a distribution case on him. His complaint included a personal statement indicating that he has a hatred towards sex offenders which signals that the Government was trying to label him as one so they could incarcerate him for an eternity.
Luckily for Mr. Lacroix the Office of the Inspector General was made aware of the lawsuit and immediately halted most of the Government's case pending an internal investigation for misconduct. Unnamed case agents are set to be interviewed starting on January 5, 2026 which suggests that one of his claims may have had merit. This is mentioned in the audio recordings but the Government reportedly does not seem to have stopped harassing him based on his social media posts. [12]