Sinaloa Cartel used Mexico City surveillance cameras to track and kill FBI informants: Department of Justice


E. Alejandro M. Alarcon


The report points out that a hacker identified an assistant FBI legal attaché at the United States Embassy in Mexico City and was able to use his phone number "to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data"


A hacker working for the Sinaloa Cartel obtained phone records from an FBI official and used Mexico City surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a report released Thursday.


The incident was revealed in an audit by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice on the FBI's efforts to mitigate the effects of "ubiquitous technical surveillance," a term used to describe the global proliferation of chambers and the thriving trade of vast communications, travel and location data stores.


According to the report, the hacker worked for a cartel led by "El Chapo", in reference to the Sinaloa Cartel led by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, extradited to the United States in 2017. The report points out that the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attaché at the United States Embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the aggregate'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) around the city and identify the people he met with."


According to the report, "the cartel used that information to intimidate and, in some cases, murder potential sources or collaborating witnesses."


The report did not identify the alleged hacker, the attaché or the victims.


The U.S. embassy in Mexico referred the questions to the Departments of State and Justice, which did not immediately return the messages for comments. The FBI and Guzmán's lawyer did not immediately respond to the messages in search of comments.


The collection of granular location data from people's phones by a variety of commercial and official agents, combined with the ever-inclasing coverage of surveillance cameras, has posed a problem for intelligence and law enforcement officials, many of whom rely on confidential informants.

https://latinus.us/eu/2025/6/27/cartel-de-sinaloa-uso-camaras-de-vigilancia-de-la-cdmx-para-rastrear-asesinar-informantes-del-fbi-departamento-de-justicia-145466.html












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