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Busted ‘secure’ EncroChat messaging service leads to over 6,500 arrests by police

Back in 2020, law enforcement agents across Europe had a major breakthrough in their fight against organised crime. They managed to crack into EncroChat - a secure encrypted messaging service which ran on modified Android phones, that promised "worry-free secure communications". But investigators managed to gain full control of EncroChat's infrastructure, and could read users' supposedly-encrypted messages in real-time.