The notorious poster hired the hacker to use surveillance cameras, phone data to track and kill the FBI informants, says USA.

A notorious drug poster recruited a hacker that could infiltrate telephone data and surveillance cameras in Mexico City to help track and kill informants of the FBI, revealed the United States Department of Justice.

The 2018 operation was revealed on Thursday in an audit of 47 pages by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, which describes the “efforts of the FBI to mitigate the effects of ubiquitous technical surveillance.”

The partially written report cites a case that involves Juaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, the founder of the infamous Sinaloa cartel. “El Chapo” is now fulfilling life imprisonment in a maximum security prison in the US.

According to the recently published audit, the poster recruited an unnamed hacker in 2018. The hacker “observed the people who entered and left the United States embassy in Mexico City and identified” people of interest “for the poster, including an assistant legal attack of the FBI,” the report said.

The computer pirate was able to use the telephone number of the fixation to determine the incoming and outgoing calls, as well as the geolocation data of the FBI official, according to the audit.

The report says that the hacker also used the surveillance cameras system in Mexico City to follow the FBI setting throughout the city and identify the people with whom they found themselves. “The poster used that information to intimidate and, in some cases, kill possible sources or cooperating witnesses,” said the audit.

The report said that modern technology has made it difficult to protect sensitive operations and sources.

“Advances in mining and data analysis, facial recognition and exploitation of the computer network have made it easier than ever for national state adversaries, terrorist organizations and criminal networks identifying staff and operations of the FBI,” said the audit.

The report urged the FBI to carry out an evaluation of threats throughout the company to determine where the agency is more vulnerable.

The Sinaloa poster, which was designated as a terrorist organization earlier this year by the Trump administration, has long been one of the most powerful and ruthless crime unions in Mexico. The poster is one of the greatest producers and traffickers of fentanil and other drugs to the United States and has been known for killing, kidnapping and intimidating civilians, government officials and journalists, “according to the United States Department of State.

Revelation on the hacker of the Sinaloa cartel comes only a few weeks after the United States offered a $ 10 million reward For the capture of two of the children of El Chapo: the archivist Ivan Guzmán Salazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzman Salazar. Your other two children – Joaquín Guzmán López and Ovid Guzman López – They are currently in custody of the United States.

The children of El Chapo lead a faction of the Sinaloa cartel known as the “Chapitos” or “Little Chapos”. The Chapitos and their poster associates have used sacks, electrocution and hot peppers to Torture to your rivals While some of their victims were “feeding dead or lives to the tigers”, according to an accusation of the United States of 2023.

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