Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text
Season 1
S1 · E1 · Jul 27, 2025
Episode 1 Episode 1
S1 · E2 · Jul 28, 2025
Episode 2 Episode 2
S1 · E3 · Jul 29, 2025
Episode 3 Episode 3
S1 · E4 · Jul 30, 2025
Episode 4 Episode 4
4 episodes in Season 1
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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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Cast
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Zac Beattie Creator · Simon Ford Executive producer
Total runtime 3h 4m · Episode length 46 min · Type Miniseries
Show info
Premiered
July 27, 2025
Final episode
July 30, 2025
Status
Ended
Network
Channel 4
Country
United Kingdom
Type
Miniseries
Episode length
46 min
Total runtime
3h 4m
Original language
English
Production
The Garden Productions
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Spoken on screen
English
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