Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text
Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text
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Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text

7.8 / 10
2025
1 season
4 episodes
CrimeDocumentary

The incredible inside story of a huge police operation to infiltrate dangerous global crime gangs through their encrypted phone network. Operation Dark Phone : Murder by Text is the inside story the biggest ever joint law enforcement operation against a global network of organised crime groups who believed their encrypted phones were safe. Until a collaboration between international authorities - led in the UK by the National Crime Agency - managed to hack their phones to reveal the astonishing details of their messages. For the first time since the EncroChat network was infiltrated in 2020, the messages sent and the criminals exposed are exclusively revealed in a four part documentary series that tells the story in compelling and shocking detail. For 74 frantic days the authorities could read all the messages and sought to save lives and bring down the gangs, before the criminals realised their data was being captured.

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  • Episode 1

    1.Episode 1

    27-07-202556m

    The inside story of the biggest ever joint law enforcement operation against a global network of organised crime groups who believed their encrypted phones were safe. For 74 franti...

  • Episode 2

    2.Episode 2

    28-07-202547m

    How one of the users in the encrypted chat was identified as he leader of one of the most dangerous organised crime groups in north-west England, now running his criminal enterpris...

  • Episode 3

    3.Episode 3

    29-07-202546m

    As the National Crime Agency team mobilise to find the mole within their team, word gets out that there has been a fatal development in the investigation in the Netherlands. A lead...

  • Episode 4

    4.Episode 4

    30-07-202547m

    Sixty days since the authorities first broke into the criminals' messages, it's approaching the beginning of the end of the EncroChat hack, as the owners become suspicious that the...

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