Selfies, pictures of cheese, a mural of the UFC star Conor McGregor, and the sharing of personal information. These are just some of the ways that some major criminals have been brought to justice by police in recent times.
EncroChat phones, which cost around £1,200 for a three month contact, were thought to be 'unhackable' by detectives and were almost exclusively used by criminals, the National Crime Agency (NCA) says. But, the hacking of this network has since been described as the biggest boost to policing against organised crime in decades, the LiverpoolECHO reports.
French police first obtained a court order to infiltrate its networks in January 2020, after other police services spent years investigating the network. This led to a goldmine of intelligence and evidence for European crime fighters.
