In 2018, a hacker hired by the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel run by the infamous kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán spied on the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City with the goal of identifying “people of interest” for the cartel to target and kill, according to a new U.S. government watchdog report.
On Friday, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General revealed the incident in a published report auditing the FBI’s efforts to counter surveillance with the goal of protecting “its employees, investigations, and operations.”
The report said the 2018 incident happened while the FBI was working on
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