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

Justice Department reveals cartel hacker compromised FBI attaché's phone data and used city surveillance to eliminate ...

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

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.

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The Sinaloa Cartel hacked a top US law enforcement agency and obtained classified information that was later used to ...

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

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

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

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