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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    1 day 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.