Users of the PGP telephone service Encrochat have been notified that government entities have hacked the domain. The company says the network has been attacked by "malware," which has weakened security. Because the attack is apparently very serious, the company says "it can no longer guarantee the safety of the phones." The police may have watched live for some time.

The Dutch police previously seized servers from Ennetcom (in 2016 in Canada) and PGPSafe (in 2017 in Costa Rica) and can decipher many exchanged messages from criminals. Encro is also a service that has been widely used in the criminal environment.

Several sources say that it is a team from the Dutch police who have hacked Encro.