President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed Monday that unknown subjects hacked her mobile phone and her personal email account after delivering 29 drug traffickers to the United States, on February 27, as The New York Times reported.
“They hacked my phone and my email account. Apple immediately called the Digital Transformation Agency (of the Government). Properly, they realized the hacking, the digital transformation agency took letters in the matter and very quickly reviewed it, ”said the president at her morning conference.
Sheinbaum recognized the report of the New York newspaper, which on Friday published that “shortly after the delivery” of the criminals to the United States, “Sheinbaum’s cell phone was hacked, according to several people familiar with the matter,” although she clarified that they still do not know those responsible.
“They are investigating, it is difficult to know (who did),” he said.
The Mexican authorities made the “unprecedented” transfer to the United States of 29 people in prisons in Mexico, including bosses such as Rafael Caro Quintero, leader of the Guadalajara cartel, as well as two leaders of Los Zetas, Miguel Ángel and Omar Treviño Morales.
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Sheinbaum clarified that the personal phone number that had already been leaked in February 2024, when she was a presidential candidate.
Despite the cyber attack, Sheinbaum said he kept the number for “love” because the current governor of Campeche, Layda Sansores, when they participated in the women’s brigades in oil defense, known as ‘Las Adelitas’.
While the email account is “the first” that Sheinbaum opened, from the Yahoo server.
“It is a very old account, which have many people, and apart I have the government’s account, that this has all the safety conditions and others, so it was, in effect, I do not know how she met this hacking reporter,” said Sheinbaum.
He questioned the article in which the hacking called ‘You are hard was mentioned: how Sheinbaum won Trump’s praise’, which also reports the calls that both presidents have had to negotiate United States tariffs to Mexico.
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“I do not know where he gets the information from the call with President Trump, I do not know who gave it to him, there are some issues that are true, which in general I have told them here in the morning and that I have nothing to hide, and other issues that I do not know where he took them out because they are not real,” said Sheinbaum.
With EFE information
