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

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

The Sinaloa cartel used information obtained by the hacker "to intimidate and, in some instances, kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses," the Justice Department said.

EL CHAPO’S ruthless cartel used a hacker to break into Mexico City’s CCTV system and track down FBI informants — before ...

A hacker hired by a notorious Mexican drug cartel reportedly accessed an FBI official’s phone records and surveillance ...

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

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A Mexican drug cartel hired a hacker to surveil the movements of a senior FBI official in Mexico City in 2018 or earlier, ...

A hacker working for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán's Sinaloa drug-trafficking cartel infiltrated FBI communications and city ...

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

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

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