Hacked documents expose links between US gun sales and Mexican crime
Documents leaked in a hack revealed links between US gun dealers and Mexican cartel violence. Information was also disclosed on the scale of guns from Arizona flowing to Mexican criminals.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Leak of documents through hacking
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- Hacked documents revealed links between US gun dealers and Mexican cartel violence.
- The leaked documents disclosed information on the scale of guns from Arizona flowing to Mexican criminals.
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