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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.

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[-] robotElder2@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago

Isn't the FBI supposed to be the domestic gestapo? I thought this kind sovereignty violation was the CIAs bag

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 hours ago
[-] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago

I wanted to say something poignant, but this really says all that needs to be said.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 hours ago

Now do ICE.

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 18 points 9 hours ago

This should absolutely be held up as the example for people that say "I have nothing to hide."

The world isn't fun time sunshine lollipops, kids. It's literally inevitable that your data gets leaked or stolen.

You either naïvely trust the service you give data to more than you should, or you naïvely trust criminals to skip you when given the opportunity. There no evidence of a middle ground or other options in the matter.

this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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