Dutch police have busted 19 meth labs, seized thousands of kilos of crystal meth and cocaine, and arrested more than 100 people as a result of the hack.
Police had made dozens of arrests after hacking the EncroChat network so they could read millions of messages"over the shoulders" of suspects, they told a press conference at the EU's judicial agency Eurojust in The Hague.
The hacking of the phones allowed the"disruption of criminal activities including violent attacks, corruption, attempted murders and large-scale drug transports", Eurojust and the EU police agency Europol said in a joint statement.Dutch police had busted 19 meth labs, seized thousands of kilos of crystal meth and cocaine, and arrested more than 100 people as a result of the hack, Andy Kraag, head of the police central investigations division, told the press conference.
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