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Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants, DOJ says

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A person passes by the FBI seal on the wall of the FBI headquarters, days after the Trump administration launched a sweeping round of cuts at the Justice Department, in Washington, U.S

WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday.

The incident was disclosed in a Justice Department Inspector General's audit
, opens new tab of the FBI's efforts to mitigate the effects of "ubiquitous technical surveillance," a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data.

The report said that the hacker worked for a cartel run by "El Chapo," a reference to the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was extradited to the United States in 2017.

The report said the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the attaché's phone number "to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data." The report said the hacker also "used Mexico City's camera system to follow the (FBI official) through the city and identify people the (official) met with."

The report said "the cartel used that information to intimidate and, in some instances, kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses."

The report did not identify the alleged hacker, attaché or victims.
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico referred questions to the State and Justice departments, who did not immediately return messages seeking comment. The FBI and a lawyer for El Chapo did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

The collection of granular location data from people's phones by a wide variety of commercial and official actors, combined with ever-growing coverage of surveillance cameras, has posed a thorny problem for intelligence and law enforcement officials, many of whom rely on confidential informants.
The report said that recent technological advances "have made it easier than ever for less-sophisticated nations and criminal enterprises to identify and exploit vulnerabilities" in the global surveillance economy. It said the FBI had a strategic plan in the works for mitigating those vulnerabilities and made several recommendations, including more training for bureau personnel.

(This story has been corrected to say 'used phone data,' not 'hacked phones,' in the headline)

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Phatguysrule said:
Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants, DOJ says

TSW5BCRF4BITDEIB3VBZMFVN2U.jpg


A person passes by the FBI seal on the wall of the FBI headquarters, days after the Trump administration launched a sweeping round of cuts at the Justice Department, in Washington, U.S

WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday.

The incident was disclosed in a Justice Department Inspector General's audit
, opens new tab of the FBI's efforts to mitigate the effects of "ubiquitous technical surveillance," a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data.

The report said that the hacker worked for a cartel run by "El Chapo," a reference to the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was extradited to the United States in 2017.

The report said the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the attaché's phone number "to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data." The report said the hacker also "used Mexico City's camera system to follow the (FBI official) through the city and identify people the (official) met with."

The report said "the cartel used that information to intimidate and, in some instances, kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses."

The report did not identify the alleged hacker, attaché or victims.
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico referred questions to the State and Justice departments, who did not immediately return messages seeking comment. The FBI and a lawyer for El Chapo did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

The collection of granular location data from people's phones by a wide variety of commercial and official actors, combined with ever-growing coverage of surveillance cameras, has posed a thorny problem for intelligence and law enforcement officials, many of whom rely on confidential informants.
The report said that recent technological advances "have made it easier than ever for less-sophisticated nations and criminal enterprises to identify and exploit vulnerabilities" in the global surveillance economy. It said the FBI had a strategic plan in the works for mitigating those vulnerabilities and made several recommendations, including more training for bureau personnel.

(This story has been corrected to say 'used phone data,' not 'hacked phones,' in the headline)

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RRWagner 8 hours ago | next [–]

The most important take-away of the story is that if the government has the power to gather all available data of people, sooner or later the same information will be in the hands of criminals targeting those same people
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Arubis 8 hours ago | parent | next [–]

And oftentimes the government and the criminals will be the same people—if not at the beginning then by convergence.
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OutOfHere 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [–]

Furthermore, the government is complicit in the intentional insecurity of the phone networks, protocols, and operating systems
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vkou 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [–]

And sometimes, the government becomes the criminals and everyone discovers that it's really difficult to get them to hold themselves accountable.
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pkkkzip 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [–]

also a demonstration of resources of the state vs those of a cartel

quite good and poses significant challenge to the state
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I think trump designated Cartel as terrorist, so I would expect the US military to target their operations and send the B2's or B52's
 
Fox not news told New York Jews they are anti-Semitic if they vote for Democrats. Because Jews need anti-Semites like Fox to goysplain to us.
 
A Dem push to win back America that could actually work.

Drop expanding gun control. The best plan to reduce gun crime is the same as it is for crime. Reduce poverty. Focus on universal healthcare (M4A), universal and equal access to education, and improved social safety net.

The pitch becomes that Democrats are the only party actually trying to reduce crime and increase personal liberties and well being.

If Democrats made that switch they could turn many states more purple or even solid blue.

Alaska, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and possibly more...

Gun rights is a huge single issue voter point of contention.
 
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New York Times ran hit piece on Zohran Mamdani. They dredged up his college application and noted he had checked boxes for Asian and also Black/African.

New York Times are not ignorant. They know history of Indians in Uganda. Began arriving late 19th century. Lived there for generations. Considered themselves African. Most had never been to India. Uganda dictator Idi Amin, African Trump, expelled all Asians. Many came to Canada or US. A person born in Uganda, whose family lived there for generations, might well consider themselves African.

Times tried to make him look dishonest. Or "DEI hire". Or cultural appropriation. He had the gall to beat corrupt woman abusing establishment candidate.

BTW, Kash Patel is same background.
 
crandc said:
New York Times ran hit piece on Zohran Mamdani. They dredged up his college application and noted he had checked boxes for Asian and also Black/African.

New York Times are not ignorant. They know history of Indians in Uganda. Began arriving late 19th century. Lived there for generations. Considered themselves African. Most had never been to India. Uganda dictator Idi Amin, African Trump, expelled all Asians. Many came to Canada or US. A person born in Uganda, whose family lived there for generations, might well consider themselves African.

Times tried to make him look dishonest. Or "DEI hire". Or cultural appropriation. He had the gall to beat corrupt woman abusing establishment candidate.

BTW, Kash Patel is same background.
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They used information provided by a hacker.

Last month’s cyberattack appears to have been carried out in order to see if Columbia was still using race-conscious affirmative action in its admission policies after the Supreme Court effectively barred the practice in 2023.
While Mr. Mamdani was not a target of the hack, the information about him was included in a database of millions of student applications to Columbia going back decades. The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X. He provided the data under condition of anonymity, although his identity has been made public elsewhere. He is an academic who opposes affirmative action and writes often about I.Q. and race.
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Here is the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html
 
crandc said:
A lot of that is what Mamdani said. Make living in New York affordable.
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That's great! I hope he keeps it up.

Gotta drop the gun portion though if they have any hope of winning those people back (not Mamdani, but the party as a whole. I don't know his specific stance on guns).

They have to be adamant that while guns are dangerous, law abiding citizens have the right to own them andbso the best way to address gun violence is the same as any other kind of violence. The goal has to be universal healthcare, universal access to education through college/trade school (including free or, even better tax incentivized firearms training), and a drastically improved social safety net.

I also think we need to reform the police and judicial system. But I'm not sure right now is the time to rail on that. But Dems who win need to make sure to make quality changes within that system.

They also need to reject large and corporate donations and make sure infrastructure projects are done well and completed quickly.

These are things that can be done. There is no reason for Americans to give up any freedoms to address these concerns. And Dems who address them would be almost unbeatable.
 
Phatguysrule said:
That's great! I hope he keeps it up.

Gotta drop the gun portion though if they have any hope of winning those people back (not Mamdani, but the party as a whole. I don't know his specific stance on guns).

They have to be adamant that while guns are dangerous, law abiding citizens have the right to own them andbso the best way to address gun violence is the same as any other kind of violence. The goal has to be universal healthcare, universal access to education through college/trade school (including free or, even better tax incentivized firearms training), and a drastically improved social safety net.

I also think we need to reform the police and judicial system. But I'm not sure right now is the time to rail on that. But Dems who win need to make sure to make quality changes within that system.

They also need to reject large and corporate donations and make sure infrastructure projects are done well and completed quickly.

These are things that can be done. There is no reason for Americans to give up any freedoms to address these concerns. And Dems who address them would be almost unbeatable.
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Follow the MAGA/BBB blueprint. Tell people you are going to do something they like. Completely disavow anything the voters won't like, even if you've already said it or put it in print elsewhere. Attack your opponents in return so they waste time defending themselves rather than spotlighting your issues. Gain control of the WH and both houses of Congress. Sign executive orders to start the process to enact all the stuff you were trying to say you weren't doing. Have Congress vote to pass bills within the next couple of weeks that just say they are keeping the status quo, which is now the EOs, and codify that before it becomes a matter for SCOTUS to counter.

They could do universal healthcare and gun control a couple of different ways like this and have 3 1/2 years to worry about holding enough seats in the federal government for the next election.
 
MickZagger said:
What’s even more cringe is that there’s a voting block that actually voted to let this nut bag represent them.

I think Crockett would kick her ass.
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Maybe have them square off on Trump's UFC card next July 4 at the White House.
 
crandc said:
He had the gall to beat corrupt woman abusing establishment candidate.
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Is there proof the woman he beat was corrupt? And even if she was, does that justify a beating?
How was she abusing the establishment candidate exactly?
So many questions.

barfo
 
barfo said:
Is there proof the woman he beat was corrupt? And even if she was, does that justify a beating?
How was she abusing the establishment candidate exactly?
So many questions.

barfo
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Are you saying I left out commas? Correct. Excuse is S2 shutting down. Type fast and post. It has taken three tries to type this. That said I think you know my meaning.

See if I can before getting shut down.

Beat a corrupt, woman-abusing, establishment candidate...
 
crandc said:
Are you saying I left out commas? Correct. Excuse is S2 shutting down. Type fast and post. It has taken three tries to type this. That said I think you know my meaning.

See if I can before getting shut down.

Beat a corrupt, woman-abusing, establishment candidate...
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I was just having fun-with-language. Your meaning was entirely clear.

barfo
 
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