By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A Mexican drug cartel hired a hacker to surveil the movements of a senior FBI official in Mexico City in 2018 or earlier, gathering information from the city’s camera system that allowed the cartel to kill potential FBI informants, the Justice Department inspector genera…
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Mexican drug cartel used hacker to track FBI official, then killed potential informants, government audit says
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Mexican cartel hackers used FBI agent’s phone and public cameras to track down and kill informants: report
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A Mexican drug cartel hired a hacker to surveil the movements of a senior FBI official in Mexico City in 2018 or earlier, gathering information from the city’s camera system that allowed the cartel to kill potential FBI informants, the Justice Department inspector genera…
The stunning new details offer a rare look at how technology can be exploited in the high-stakes battle between US law enforcement and the violent Mexican cartels that control illicit drug trade.
