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Drug Cartel Hacked FBI Official’s Phone to Track and Kill Informants, Report Says
- In 2018, an individual employed by the Sinaloa drug cartel infiltrated an FBI official’s phone and accessed Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to monitor and facilitate the targeting and killing of informants.
- This attack occurred as cartels increasingly utilize sophisticated surveillance and hacking technologies to monitor police operations and track rival targets.
- The hacker monitored calls and geolocation data of an FBI assistant legal attaché in Mexico City and used city cameras to follow that official's movements and contacts.
- The U.S. Justice Department report indicated that the cartel leveraged this information to threaten and, at times, eliminate individuals who might provide information or assist law enforcement.
- The incident highlights serious vulnerabilities in law enforcement operations, prompting calls for enhanced training, strategic plans, and infrastructure improvements to counter surveillance threats.
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It sounds like a scenario from a Hollywood movie, but it really happened. A Mexican drug cartel hired a hacker to spy on a high-ranking FBI agent in the Mexican capital. In this way, the drug criminals were able to discover the identities of informants. The 'snitch' subsequently paid for their betrayal with their lives.
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World NEWS LiveDrug cartel hacked FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says
The Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico hacked the phone of an FBI official investigating kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán as part of a surveillance campaign “to intimidate and/or kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses,” according to a recently published report by the Justice Department. The report, which cited an “individual connected to the cartel,” said a hacker hired by its top brass “offered a menu of services related to exploiting mobi…
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