The Sinaloa drug cartel hired a hacker to use phone data and surveillance cameras to track and kill FBI informants, according to the Justice Department.
On Thursday, the operation was revealed in a 47-page audit released by the department’s inspector general, detailing the FBI’s “efforts to mitigate the effects of ubiquitous technical surveillance.”
According to the partially redacted audit, an unidentified hacker was recruited by the cartel in 2018, when the FBI was working on the El Chapo case. Juaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is the founder of the Sinaloa cartel. He is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security U.S. prison for trafficking massive amounts of cocaine and other drugs into America for more than 25 years.
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