EncroChat is a now‑defunct European encrypted communications service that provided modified smartphones known as EncroPhones to customers seeking high‑level privacy from 2016 until its shutdown in June 2020. Operated from France and the Netherlands, the platform supported around 60,000 subscribers, of whom law enforcement believed over 90 percent were involved in organized criminal activity. In early 2020, a joint investigation by French and Dutch authorities, supported by Europol and Eurojust, successfully infiltrated EncroChat servers and deployed malware to intercept millions of encrypted messages in real time. The operation led to thousands of arrests across multiple countries, massive seizures of drugs, weapons and illicit assets, and ultimately the dismantling of the network. EncroChat ceased operations when administrators warned users that their devices were compromised.