[BreachExchange] Dutch detectives unencrypt 3.6 million emails sent by criminals

[Audrey McNeil]

https://www.scmagazineuk.com/dutch-detectives-unencrypt-36-
million-emails-sent-by-criminals/article/643305/

Dutch police, in an effort to crack down on violent organised crime, have
cracked 3.6 million encrypted emails which will provide according to them
crucial evidence for their investigations.

The Dutch public prosecution department has announced that 3.6 million
emails sent by criminals have been unencrypted by Dutch Police, and will
now be used to bring gangs to justice.

According to the department, the emails allegedly provide key information
for investigations into charges of murder, armed robbery, drugs, money
laundering and other forms of organised crime.

Seven TBs of emails were stored on servers in Canada, but belonged to a
Dutch company named Ennetcom, which the public prosecution department won
the right access the data of in a court case last year.

The department said Ennetcom was the ‘biggest provider of encrypted
communications in the Netherlands', and also does business in other
countries around the world including South America and other countries in
western Europe.

The owner of Ennetcom was arrested last April, the his company's network
was shut down pending an investigation, however he has since been released
but facing prosecution.

The reason the police in the Netherlands are allegedly poking into the
servers of Ennetcom is the recent spate of gangland killings in the
Netherlands.

Detectives found that many of those involved had encrypted Ennetcom
telephones in their possession.
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