Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text (2025)

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20251 Season46m episodes7.8

Crime, Documentary

TMDB7.8

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Runtime: 46m episodes
Genre: Crime
Origin: GB

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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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Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Germany.

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Jul 27, 2025
Network: Channel 4
Studio: The Garden Productions

Time to finish

3 hrs

4 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Cast

Kenny Blyth

LuxuryBalloon

Russell Anthony

ThrowTheDice

Chris Eastwood

Keyhole

Ahmed Elmusrati

TypicalTea

John Hoye

BoldMove

Michael Wagner

Slempo

Matt Horne

Self - Gold Commander National Crime Agency

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SERIES

20251 Season46m episodes7.8

Crime, Documentary

TMDB7.8

Votes6

Your rating

Runtime: 46m episodes
Genre: Crime
Origin: GB

About

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Germany.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Jul 27, 2025 · 56m
Episode 1
The inside story of the biggest ever joint law enforcement operation against a global network of organised crime groups who believed their encrypted phones were safe. 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 that their data was being captured.
E2 · Airs Jul 28, 2025 · 47m
Episode 2
How one of the users in the encrypted chat was identified as he leader of one of the most dangerous organised crime groups in north-west England, now running his criminal enterprises from outside the UK. He had no idea that his messages had been intercepted and was planning coordinated shootings against the families of two of his enemies.
E3 · Airs Jul 29, 2025 · 46m
Episode 3
As the National Crime Agency team mobilise to find the mole within their team, word gets out that there has been a fatal development in the investigation in the Netherlands. A leading crime journalist, Wouter Laumans, is quickly on the case. The murder victim is a very close friend of the crime boss who has built the torture chamber. The authorities fear a terrifying escalation when they uncover a plot to kidnap his enemy's family in revenge. It becomes increasingly clear that the authorities will soon have to reveal their hands if more deaths are to be avoided.
E4 · Airs Jul 30, 2025 · 47m
Episode 4
Sixty days since the authorities first broke into the criminals' messages, it's approaching the beginning of the end of the EncroChat hack, as the owners become suspicious that they've been compromised. But as each batch of messages that have been given to the UK authorities are analysed, more and more criminality is exposed. Analysts reveal that it's the first time that they've ever come across exportation of drugs from the UK, as they discover half a tonne of ecstasy is bound for Australia.

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Jul 27, 2025
Network: Channel 4
Studio: The Garden Productions

Time to finish

3 hrs

4 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Kenny Blyth

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Russell Anthony

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John Hoye

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Matt Horne

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