Hackers have started a cyber war

A global industry has turned email hacking into a weapon for sale, writes Mattathias Schwartz.

Violeta Lagunes was perplexed by a series of strange messages that appeared in her Gmail inbox.

It was election day in May 2014 to choose the leadership of Mexico’s right-wing Partido Acción Nacional, or PAN, and Lagunes, a former federal congresswoman, was holding a strategy meeting in her office in Puebla City.