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Drug cartel hacked FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says
Official was connected to FBI probe of cartel Kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
The Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico hacked the phone of an FBI official investigating kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán as part of a surveillance campaign “to intimidate and/or kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses,” according to a recently published report by the Justice Department. A second example of UTS threatening FBI investigations occurred when the leader of an organized crime family suspected an employee of being an informant. Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords.
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