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

Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text

8.3(3 votes)
2025
1 Season 4 Episodes
Crime
Documentary

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.

Status: Ended
First Air Date: 7/27/2025

Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

4 episodes

Episodes

1
Episode 1
2
Episode 2
3
Episode 3
4
Episode 4

Cast

Kenny Blyth

Kenny Blyth

LuxuryBalloon

Russell Anthony

Russell Anthony

ThrowTheDice

Chris Eastwood

Chris Eastwood

Keyhole

Ahmed Elmusrati

Ahmed Elmusrati

TypicalTea

John Hoye

John Hoye

BoldMove

Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner

Slempo

Matt Horne

Matt Horne

Self - Gold Commander National Crime Agency

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