Australian police swooped in to arrest a man they say built a messaging app marketed as 'unhackable' to the criminal underworld, but which clearly was not.
The Hague — A 32-year-old Australia n 'computer geek' has been arrested on suspicion of building an encrypted messaging app used by hundreds of criminals worldwide to arrange drug deals and order killings, police said Wednesday. Australia n Federal Police said the Ghost app was marketed to underworld figures as 'unhackable' and was used by hundreds of suspected criminals from Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Several thousand people worldwide use Ghost and around 1,000 messages are exchanged on it every day, according to Europol. There were 376 phones with the Ghost app installed in Australia alone. In one case, police intercepted an image of a gun to someone's head and were able to save that person within the hour, Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner Kirsty Schofield said.
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