A notorious drug cartel enlisted a hacker who was able to infiltrate phone data and Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help track and kill FBI informants.

Sometimes the surveillance state gets turned against itself. That seems to be what resulted in the unfortunate demise of a ...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is being accused of a security breach that allowed a notorious Mexican drug gang to track ...

A hacker employed by Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel infiltrated FBI surveillance operations as recently as 2018, according to the ...

In 2018, a hacker hired by the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel run by the infamous kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán spied on the ...

The Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico hacked the phone of an FBI official investigating kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán as part ...

A federal report says in 2018 the Sinaloa Cartel hired a hacker to track an FBI agent to find informants and witnesses ...

Device compromises and deep-seated access to critical infrastructure exposed surveillance vulnerabilities in agency's work A major Mexican drug cartel insider grassed on his fellow drug-peddlers back ...

The report urged the FBI to conduct an enterprise-wide threat assessment to determine where the agency is most vulnerable. The Sinaloa cartel, which was designated a terrorist organization earlier ...

The hacker was able to break into the agent’s phone remotely and watch their incoming and outgoing calls, and even monitor ...

A hacker tied to El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel used an FBI official’s phone and Mexico City’s CCTV network to help track and kill US informants. The revelation came from a US Justice Department watchdog ...

The Department of Justice report said the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City ...