一名为锡那罗亚贩毒集团工作的黑客锁定了美国联邦调查局（FBI）驻墨西哥城的一名助理法律专员。据路透社对2025年6月发布的一份司法部监察长报告的报道，该黑客利用这名官员的电话号码获取了通话记录和位置数据。随后，黑客利用墨西哥城的监控摄像头网络跟踪这名官员在首都的行踪，并识别其会见的人员。报告称，贩毒集团利用这些信息恐吓潜在的情报来源和合作证人，在某些情况下甚至将他们杀害。
A hacker working for the Sinaloa cartel identified an FBI assistant legal attaché in Mexico City. According to Reuters covering a Justice Department inspector general report released in June 2025, the hacker used the official's phone number to obtain call records and location data. The hacker then used Mexico City's camera network to follow the official around the capital and identify the people they met. The report says the cartel used that information to intimidate potential sources and cooperating witnesses and, in some cases, to kill them.
这一致命的教训显而易见：我们的对手不再需要对目标进行物理监视。商业数据经济为他们完成了大部分工作。
The deadly lesson was clear: our adversaries no longer need to physically surveil their targets. The commercial data economy does much of the work for them.
在上周发布的一份更新审计报告中，司法部监察长强调，这种威胁——即普遍性技术监视（UTS）——“继续影响着司法部”，并指出“司法部对UTS缺乏统一的定义，在这一问题上也缺乏良好的协调；司法部下属部门中几乎没有采取行动来减轻UTS威胁，且缺乏针对UTS的专门培训。”
In an updated audit released last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General highlighted that this threat — ubiquitous technical surveillance or UTS — "continue[s] to affect the Department" and determined that "DOJ had no common definition of UTS and was not otherwise well-coordinated on the issue, few of the Department's components had taken action to mitigate the UTS threat, and UTS-specific training was lacking."
FBI在“ShinyHunters”黑客组织声称窃取了特工个人数据后展开调查。该结论应引起每一位国土安全和执法官员的关注：“此次审计中发现的缺陷使司法部及其员工、调查、行动、情报来源和证人面临更高的UTS威胁风险。”作为过去25年来的联邦执法和国土安全官员，我亲眼目睹了技术如何迅速改变我们人员所面临的威胁环境。廉价且可商用的信息的泛滥造成了不可接受的风险，需要一个全面的解决方案。
FBI INVESTIGATES AFTER SHINYHUNTERS HACKERS CLAIM THEFT OF AGENTS' PERSONAL DATA The conclusion should concern every Homeland Security and law enforcement official: "deficiencies identified in this audit place the Department and its employees, investigations, operations, sources, and witnesses at increased risk to UTS threats." As a federal law enforcement and Homeland Security official for the past 25 years, I have seen how quickly technology can change the threat environment facing our personnel. The proliferation of inexpensive, commercially available information creates an unacceptable risk that requires a comprehensive solution. As the acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, I saw these threats firsthand.
作为移民与海关执法局（ICE）的代理局长，我曾亲身经历过这些威胁。我和我的家人对其中的危险深有体会。
My family and I know the dangers too well. In October 2025, for example, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that cartels had put bounties on ICE and Customs and Border Protection officers in Chicago.
例如，2025年10月，国土安全部（DHS）报告称，贩毒集团已对芝加哥的移民及海关执法局（ICE）和海关及边境保护局（CBP）的官员发出悬赏。据报道，针对泄露个人信息或搜集特工情报的悬赏金额为2000美元，而刺杀高级官员的悬赏金额最高可达5万美元。
The reported figures were $2,000 for doxxing or gathering intelligence on agents and as much as $50,000 for killing high-ranking officials. Especially for officers working cartel cases, the risk can follow them home.
特别是对于负责处理贩毒集团案件的官员来说，这种风险可能会跟随他们回到家中。街角的监控摄像头：是合法的监视还是存在宪法争议？
THE SURVEILLANCE CAMERA ON YOUR STREET CORNER: LAWFUL SPYING OR CONSTITUTIONALLY PROBLEMATIC? Consider a task-force officer who raids a cartel stash house in the morning and drives home that evening to the same community where the arrest occurred.
试想一名特遣部队的警官，他早上突袭了一个贩毒集团的窝点，晚上开车回到逮捕发生地所在的社区。这位警官的孩子在那里上学，全家人在那里做礼拜，警官周六还在那里担任青少年运动队的教练。
The officer's children attend school there. The family goes to church there.
单独来看，这些碎片信息可能微不足道。但结合在一起，它们就能重构一个人的生活。这为联邦执法人员带来了新的脆弱性。
The officer coaches a youth sports team there on Saturdays. Individually, those pieces may appear insignificant. Combined, they can reconstruct a person's life.
五个让退休人员暴露风险的数据经纪人退出机制误区：这就是商业数据经济可能带来的泄露。现在的变化在于，对手获取信息所需的成本极低。杜克大学的研究人员以每条低至12美分的价格购买了美国军事人员的敏感记录，其中包括姓名和家庭住址。此外，《连线》杂志的一项调查利用商业位置数据，追踪了与德国美军基地相关的设备，最终定位到了军人家属的住所和学校。
And that creates a new vulnerability for federal law enforcement. FIVE DATA BROKER OPT-OUT MYTHS THAT LEAVE RETIREES EXPOSED This is what the commercial data economy can expose. What has changed is how little an adversary has to steal. Duke University researchers bought sensitive records on U.S. military personnel for as little as 12 cents each, including names and home addresses.
幸运的是，我们知道如何开始防范这一点。在全球反恐战争期间，我们非常擅长利用数据来寻找目标并绘制其网络图。我们需要将这种专业知识转化为更好地保护我们自己的人员。
Separately, a WIRED investigation used commercial location data to trace devices associated with U.S. military sites in Germany to homes and schools for military children. Fortunately, we know how to begin defending against this. During the Global War on Terrorism, we got very good at using data to find people and map their networks.
在特朗普针对所谓墨西哥腐败网络的大规模打击行动中，贩毒集团头目成为目标之一。特工部门应建立一套程序，以核查对手目前能获取到关于他们的哪些信息。相关机构应尽可能帮助特工从数据经纪人网站上删除其住址，协助其家人锁定账户，并提供明确的渠道来举报涉及其姓名或个人信息的威胁。这种保护应成为工作的一部分，并有相应的资源和问责机制作为支撑。
We need to turn that expertise into better protecting our own personnel. DRUG CARTEL KINGPIN AMONG TARGETS IN SWEEPING TRUMP CRACKDOWN ON ALLEGED MEXICAN CORRUPTION NETWORK Agents should have a program that checks what an adversary can already see about them. Agencies should help remove their addresses from broker sites where possible, help their families lock down their accounts, and provide a clear way to report threats involving their names or personal information. That protection should be part of the job, with resources and accountability behind it.
本届政府已将六个墨西哥贩毒集团列为外国恐怖组织，国土安全部领导层也已公开描述了针对其官员的威胁。保护工作人员免受贩毒集团的监视是这一行动的后续，且无需等待。任命一名高级官员负责此事。
The administration has designated six Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and DHS leadership has publicly described threats to its officers. Protecting the workforce from cartel surveillance follows from that, and it doesn't need to wait. Put one senior official in charge.
从风险最高的人员开始：负责处理贩毒集团案件的特别工作组、我们在海外的武官以及保护我们领导人的安保小组。查明对手能获取到关于他们的哪些信息。然后利用这些调查结果帮助其家人减少暴露风险，并培训特工，使其意识到自己处于被监视状态，并据此开展工作。
Start with the people at greatest risk: the task forces working cartel cases, our attachés overseas and the details protecting our leaders. Find out what an adversary can see about them. Then use those findings to help families reduce their exposure, and train agents to assume they are visible and work accordingly.
国会应为这种保护提供明确的授权和持续的资金支持。
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墨西哥城的案例表明，当监视活动暴露了美国官员身边的人时，会发生什么。住址、位置记录和家庭档案可以揭示整个家庭的日常生活规律，使与该特工关系最密切的人处于危险之中。我们绝不能等到另一场悲剧发生后再采取行动。我们必须立即堵住这些数据泄露漏洞，以保护特工及其家人。
The Mexico City case shows what can happen when surveillance exposes the people around an American official. Addresses, location histories and family profiles can reveal the routines of an entire household, putting the people closest to that agent at risk. We must not wait for another tragedy before acting. We have to plug these data leaks now to protect agents and their families.