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

A hacker employed by Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel infiltrated the phone records and location data of a senior FBI agent ...

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

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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.

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

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.

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

Unidentified computer hackers associated with the Sinaloa drug cartel were able to garner phone records from the FBI, then ...

EL CHAPO’S ruthless cartel used a hacker to break into Mexico City’s CCTV system and track down FBI informants — before ...