Sinaloa Cartel Used Phone Data and Surveillance Cameras To Find and Kill FBI Informants in 2018, DOJ Says

Designated as a foreign terrorist group, Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel has been implicated in the 2018 tracking and killing of FBI informants, aided by a hacker who accessed an FBI official’s phone records and utilized Mexico City’s surveillance cameras. A recent Justice Department report revealed that the cartel used this information to identify and intimidate potential witnesses against them.

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The Sinaloa drug cartel used a hacker to find and hurt people who were helping the FBI in Mexico.

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