Report: Hackers Now Backing Down On Plans To Target Drug Cartel

This is an update from our report yesterday. From the UK Guardian:

Plans by the hacker collective Anonymous to expose collaborators withMexico’s bloody Zetas drug cartel – a project it dubbed “#OpCartel” – have fallen into disarray, with some retreating from the idea of confronting the killers while others say that the kidnap of an Anonymous hacker, the incident meant to have spawned the scheme, never happened.

The apparent climbdown by the group came as one security company, Stratfor, claimed that the cartel was hiring its own security experts to track the hackers down – which could have resulted in “abduction, injury and death” for anyone it traced.

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