Mexican drug cartel hacker spied on FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says

In 2018, the notorious Kingpin Joacan “El Chopo”, a Hacker, a hacker appointed by the Mexican Sinaloa Drug Cartel, was spying on the US Embassy in Mexico City, aimed at the Cartel to identify “people of interest”, to kill “a new government watch report.”

On Friday, the Inspector General published the event as part of the judicial office of the General Report “Its employees, investigations and operations” monitor the FBI’s efforts to deal with surveillance aim.

According to the report, the 2018 incident took place while working on the FBI investigation, which eventually took El Chopo to the arrest. At this time, the report said that someone attached to his cartel suggested the FBI that the criminal company had appointed a hacker.

The hacker said “mobile phones and other electronic devices provided a menu of service related to the exploitation” and the report, along with the FBI’s assistant legal attachment to the local law enforcement authorities, said that the US embassy was able to observe the people who went inside and outside the US embassy in the capital of Mexico.

Somehow – how the report does not give details – the hacker officer’s mobile phone number “made and received calls as well as geolocation data, related to it,” to “use” “for” related to it.

According to the FBI, the camera system in Mexico City, Mexico City, also accessed the connection through the city and also accessed the report to whom people were met.

“According to the case agent, Cartel used that information to intimidate and in some cases killed potential sources or witnesses,” the report added.

Arriving for comments, the FBI mentioned the questions from the judiciary, which did not respond to any request for the comment.

For years, Mexico is on the brink of bloodshed in both sides of the drug war.

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Ay Vice News InvestigationMexican cartels were taping a security software used by local government agencies to “identify and disappear and hide their crimes”.

Before that, 2015, Motherboard report Those local cartels appointed “a hacker brigade” to create and manage their own communication networks. Later in 2017, Motherboard published A hacker working for the Cenaloa Cartel helped the Lieutenant of the Cartel, Dasmaso Lapez Nejz, to find and arrest. The hacker was originally appointed by Cartel in 2014 to try to hack the high-safety Federal Federal Federal Pentennity, where El Chopo was held at that time.