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Watch Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text (2025) Online
Synopsis
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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1. Episode 1Now viewing2025-07-2756mThe 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 frantic days the authorities could read all the messages and sought to save lives and bring down the gangs, before the criminals realised that their data was being captured.
2. Episode 22025-07-2847mHow 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 enterprises from outside the UK. He had no idea that his messages had been intercepted and was planning coordinated shootings against the families of two of his enemies.
3. Episode 32025-07-2946mAs 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 leading crime journalist, Wouter Laumans, is quickly on the case. The murder victim is a very close friend of the crime boss who has built the torture chamber. The authorities fear a terrifying escalation when they uncover a plot to kidnap his enemy's family in revenge. It becomes increasingly clear that the authorities will soon have to reveal their hands if more deaths are to be avoided.
4. Episode 42025-07-3047mSixty 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 they've been compromised. But as each batch of messages that have been given to the UK authorities are analysed, more and more criminality is exposed. Analysts reveal that it's the first time that they've ever come across exportation of drugs from the UK, as they discover half a tonne of ecstasy is bound for Australia.
Cast
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How many seasons does Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text have?
Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text has 1 season and 4 episodes.
When did Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text first air?
Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text first aired in 2025.
Is Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text still running?
Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text's status on TMDB is: Ended.
What genre is Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text?
Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text is classified as Crime, Documentary.