(Changes the title and say “used phone data”, not “hacked phones”)
Washington, June 27 (Reuters) – Hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to acquire telephone records of the FBI clerk and use Mexico City supervisory cameras to help follow and kill agency information in 2018, the US Ministry of Justice said on Thursday.
The incident was published in the audit of the General Inspector of the Ministry of Justice on the FBI effort to alleviate the effects of “ubiquitous technical supervision”, a term used to describe the global dissemination of cameras and prosperous trade in large trades of communication, travel and location.
The report said that Hacker worked for a cartel operated by “El Chapo”, a reference to the Sinaloa drug cartel led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, who was released in the United States in 2017.
The report stated that the hacker identified the legal attaché FBI at the US Embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the phone number “To obtain calls and reception and geolocation data”. The report said that the hacker also “used the camera system Mexico City to follow (official FBI) through the city and identify the people he (official) encountered”.
The report stated that “Cartel used this information to intimidate and in some cases killing potential sources or cooperating witnesses.”
The report did not identify the alleged hacker, attaché or victims.
The US Embassy in Mexico referred to questions of state and justice, which immediately did not return the news that they were looking for a comment. The FBI and the Lawyer for El Chapo did not immediately return the reports seeking comment.
The collection of data on granular placement from phones from people from a wide range of commercial and official actors in combination with the ever -increasing coverage of tracking cameras represents a thorny problem for intelligence officials and coercive bodies, many of which rely on confidential information.
The report said that the recent technological progress “” facilitated more than ever to identify and abuse vulnerability “in the global economy of supervision. He stated that the FBI had a strategic plan for alleviating these vulnerabilities and issued several recommendations, including further training for the Bureau staff. .
(Tagstotranslate) Used phone data (T) FBI Official
