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The Wiretap: A Mexican Cartel Hacker Spied On The FBI And Its Informants
- In 2018 and afterward, a hacker employed by the Sinaloa cartel conducted surveillance on a senior FBI official in Mexico City to identify and target informants connected to the agency.
- This operation emerged as new commercial ubiquitous technical surveillance tools became widely accessible, allowing criminals to exploit vulnerabilities in law enforcement communications.
- The hacker used the FBI assistant legal attache's phone number, call logs, geolocation data, and Mexico City surveillance cameras to track movements and contacts of FBI personnel and informants.
- The Justice Department reported that the hacker provided cartel leaders with a range of tools and capabilities for accessing and exploiting mobile devices, which the cartel then used to gather intelligence to threaten or eliminate witnesses cooperating in the El Chapo trial.
- The breach exposed serious security gaps in the FBI's response to UTS threats, which the DOJ described as disorganized and inadequate, raising existential concerns for law enforcement protection of sources.
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A report by the U.S. Department of Justice, published in June, reveals details about how a Mexican drug cartel hired a hacker in 2018 to spy on a senior FBI official in Mexico City to obtain confidential information about his informants and investigations.
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Mexican Drug Cartel Hacks FBI Agent's Phone, Uses Info To Kill Off Informants?
Source: NurPhoto / Getty For all the hoopla and bustle being said about Donald Trump deporting “criminal” immigrants and making America great again in the process, not much was made about the Trump administration letting 17 members of El Chapo’s family and other cartel leaders into the United States as part of a deal the infamous Sinaloa Cartel cut with the U.S. this past May. Now, it seems like that same cartel was somehow able to hack the phon…
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