EncroChat
Sign in to saveEncroChat was a Europe-based communications network and service provider that offered modified smartphones allowing encrypted communication among subscribers. It was used primarily by organised crime members to plan criminal activities.
Key facts
- Company.name
- EncroChat
- Company.logo
- EncroChat logo.png
- Company.founded
- 2016
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.industry
- Computer software
- OS.name
- EncroChat OS
- OS.title
- EncroChat OS
- OS.screenshot
- File:EncroChatHomeScreen.png
- OS.screenshot_size
- 100px
- OS.caption
- Homescreen of EncroChat OS
- OS.developer
- EncroChat
- OS.family
- Unix-like (Linux)
- OS.working state
- Discontinued
- OS.source model
- Based on open source Android
- OS.supported platforms
- BQ Aquaris X2 and others
- Law enforcement operation.name
- Operation Eternal
- Law enforcement operation.scope
- multinational
- Law enforcement operation.planned_by
- France, United Kingdom
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- encrochat.network
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2020-06-00
- inception
- 2016-00-00
- Commons category
- EncroChat
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- Background
- Functionality and services
- Infiltration
- Impact
- European joint investigation team, 2020
- European joint investigation against Ndrangheta, 2023
- United Kingdom
- Operation Venetic
- Warrant legality
- Operation Eternal
- Convictions
- Similar products
- References
- External links
EncroChat was a Europe-based communications network and service provider that offered modified smartphones allowing encrypted communication among subscribers. It was used primarily by organised crime members to plan criminal activities.
Police infiltrated the network between at least March and June 2020 during a Europe-wide investigation. An unidentified source associated with EncroChat announced on the night of 12–13 June 2020 that the company would cease operations because of the police investigation.