Anonymous cancels operations against drug cartel, say kidnapped member has been found

A month after boldly declaring it would expose collaborators of Mexico’s violent Zetas drug cartel to retaliate for the kidnapping of a member, hacker group Anonymous is retreating from its threats to confront the cartel, saying the kidnapped member has been found. Others, however, say no one was ever kidnapped at all

The Guardian reports that Anonymous chose to stand down because of reports that the Zetas were hiring their own security experts to track down the hackers and kill them.

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