Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants, DOJ says
(Not ‘hacked phones’, not, change the title to say ‘used telephone data’)
By Raphael Satter
In a report published on Thursday, the US Department of Justice, Washington (Reuters) -inaloa, a hacker working for a drug cartel, was able to get the phone records of a FBI official and use Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help watch and kill the agency’s informants.
The incident has been explained in the control of the FBI’s efforts to reduce the effects of the FBI’s “technical surveillance” everywhere, and a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and developing trade developed in wide stores of communication, travel and location data.
The report said that Hacker was working for a cartel directed by “El Chapo”, referring to the Sinaloa drug cartel, run by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who was returned to the United States in 2017.
The report said that Hacker had identified a FBI Legal About the US Embassy in Mexico City and used the phone number of the attachment to “get the calls made and received calls and geographical location data”. In the report, Hacker also used the “Mexico City’s camera system (FBI official) through the city to follow the people he met (official).”
“Cartel used it to scare this information and to kill potential resources or witnesses in some cases.”
The report did not define the alleged hacker, Ataşe or victims.
The US Embassy in Mexico led questions to the states and justice departments that did not return the messages seeking comments immediately. A lawyer for FBI and El Chapo did not immediately return messages looking for comments.
The collection of detailed location data by a wide variety of commercial and official actors from the public phones created a thorny problem for intelligence and law enforcemental forces, many of which are based on hidden informants, along with the scope of continuous growing surveillance cameras.
The report said that the latest technological progress “makes less sophisticated countries and criminal enterprises define and use security vulnerabilities in the global surveillance economy than ever,” he said. He said that the FBI has a strategic plan in alleviating these security gaps and has made various suggestions for office personnel, including more training.
(Reporting by Raphael Satter in Washington. Additional reporting by Drazen Jorgic in Mexico City.
