Drug cartel hacked FBI official�s phone to track and kill informants, report says

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
cartel, including the FBI Assistant Legal Attache, and then was able to use the [attache's] mobile phone number to obtain calls made and
signals, financial, travel, and online. Credit: Justice Department While the UTS threat
has been longstanding, the report authors said, recent advances in commercially available hacking and surveillance tools are making such
surveillance easier for less sophisticated nations and criminal enterprises
investigations occurred when the leader of an organized crime family suspected an employee of being an informant
connected to law enforcement.