EU police spy on 70,000 encrypted phones

Police in Belgium, France and the Netherlands spied on live messages of suspected gangland criminals on supposedly secret phone messaging apps
EU police spy on 70,000 encrypted phones

Europol said police in the three countries were able to view 'hundreds of millions of messages exchanged between criminals'.

Police agencies were able to monitor the encrypted communications of about 70,000 people in a second major hack by European law enforcement in the last year.

Police in Belgium, France and the Netherlands spied on live messages of suspected gangland criminals on supposedly secret phone messaging apps.

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