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When Police Are Hackers: Hundreds Charged as Encrypted Network Is Broken
Wouldn't be a reason to DEFUND THE POLICE now would it?
PARIS — The police in Europe said Thursday they had arrested hundreds of people on suspicion of drug trafficking and other crimes after successfully hacking into an encrypted phone network being used by organized criminals around the world.
The authorities said that by hacking into the network, the police were able to monitor criminal activity and communication as it was happening, allowing them to stop drug deals and even to prevent murder.
Officials said in a statement that “millions” of messages were read in “real time, over the shoulder of the unsuspecting senders,” leading to arrests in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. “It was as though we were sitting at the table where the criminals were chatting among themselves, really. What makes this investigation unique is that at a large scale we managed to read all of these criminal messages live,” she said.
The phone network that was used, known as EncroChat, provided specially altered phones — no camera, microphone, or GPS — for about $1,100. The phones allowed users to immediately erase compromising messages. The network also provided subscriptions with global coverage for about $1,600 over six months, even offering round-the-clock tech support.
The data is still being analyzed and is expected to lead to “hundreds” of new investigations in the coming months.
“What is really important for Europol is that we are kind of just getting started,” Ms. Hollevoet said. “In this initial phase the focus has been really on acting on those messages which contain live, threatening content, and the crimes that were really endangering people’s lives. But we still have so much data that is being analyzed, processed and transmitted to different countries.”
The hacked messages and conversations were shared among the police in Europe through Europol. In Britain, the police made nearly 750 arrests, and seized $67 million in cash, 77 firearms and over two tons of drugs.
The information was also used by the police in Sweden and Norway, leading to arrests in those countries as well.
In the Netherlands, the police were able to make some 60 arrests as a result of the intercepted messages and to seize 22,000 pounds of cocaine, 154 pounds of heroin and 3,300 pounds of crystal methamphetamine, among other substances. They also dismantled 19 synthetic drug labs, seized 25 vehicles with “special compartments” and also “expensive watches,” according to a statement from Europol.
The investigation into EncroChat began in 2017, and it was initially focused on Lille, a city in the north of France, where the authorities discovered the presence of EncroChat servers. On June 13, the network sent out a warning to its users that it had been “infiltrated” by “governmental entities,” and advised customers to immediately get rid of their phones.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/world/europe/encrypted-network-arrests-europe.html
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