Sinaloa cartel hacked FBI phones to track and kill informants, US says

<p>Cartel run by Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán also made use of Mexico City surveillance cameras, DoJ report alleges</p><p>A hacker working for the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/12/mexico-sinaloa-cartel-war">Sinaloa drug cartel</a> was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone records and use Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency’s informants in 2018, according to a new US justice department report.</p><p>The incident was disclosed in a justice department inspector general’s audit of the FBI’s efforts to mitigate the effects of “ubiquitous technical surveillance”, a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/27/sinaloa-cartel-fbi-hackers">Continue reading...</a>