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Hackers for Sinaloa Cartel Mexico obtained telephone records from FBI officials in 2018 and used Mexico City’s surveillance camera system to track and kill informants and witnesses, the Justice Department said in a report.
The 2018 incident was disclosed in the Ministry of Justice Inspector General’s Audit The FBI is working to “miscue the impact of ubiquitous technical surveillance.”
A person passes through the FBI seal number on the wall of the FBI headquarters. Authorities say the Sinaloa Cartel hacker visited the telephone records of FBI officials and used Mexico City’s surveillance camera system to track and kill informants and witnesses. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
Report FBI Working in the case of the notorious cartel (Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman), a former leader who was extradited to the U.S. in 2017, was prompted by the FBI that a drug trafficking group had hired a hacker “hired a hacker” who provided services related to the use of mobile phones and other electronic computers and other electronic power supplies and other electronics enablements. ”
Hackers were able to identify FBI Assistant Legal Attachment (ALAT) at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and were able to use the attached phone number to “get dialed and received calls and geolocation data.”
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In images released by the Mexican federal government on January 8, 2016, Mexico’s most wanted drug aristocrat “El Chapo” Guzman represented his prison cup in Altiplano’s largest security federal prison in Almoloya, Mexico. (Mexico’s federal government passes AP) (AP)
“According to the FBI’s claims, the hackers visited the camera system in Mexico City, followed Alat through the city using the camera and identified the people Alat met with,” the report noted. “According to the case agents, the cartel used the information to intimidate and/or kill potential sources or cooperative witnesses.”
No hackers or victims were found in the report. Fox News figures have been with the U.S. in Mexico City, the State Department, the FBI and Ministry of Justice.
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The report notes that technological advances “are becoming easier than ever to identify and exploit vulnerabilities created by UTS than ever, the term used to describe the extensive collection and storage of data and analysis of everyday technologies such as smartphones, computers, computers and even vehicles.
