Matrix Criminal communications
- Lead
- French Gendarmerie and Dutch National Police
- Result
- Server infrastructure seized; service taken offline.
- Accountability
- No individual outcomes recorded
- Return status
- Not established in the public record
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Takedown Index
The Internet Takedown Index documents law enforcement seizures, sinkholes, takeovers, and shutdowns of criminal internet infrastructure. Every entry traces to a cited source.
| Takedown | Date | Category | Lead organization | Jurisdiction | Status Derived from the recorded end date. A date in the past reads Completed, no date reads Ongoing. The dataset carries no separate status column. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matrix encrypted messaging service takedown ID: td_2024_matrix | Dec 3, 2024 | Criminal communications | French Gendarmerie and Dutch National Police | Not established | Completed |
| Sky ECC interception and action day ID: td_2021_sky_ecc | Feb 1, 2021 | Criminal communications | Belgian Federal Police and Dutch National Police | International | Completed |
| EncroChat interception and shutdown ID: td_2020_encrochat | Apr 1, 2020 | Criminal communications | French Gendarmerie and Dutch National Police | International | Completed |
| Operation Trojan Shield ID: td_2021_anom | Oct 1, 2018 | Criminal communications | FBI and AFP | International | Completed |
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December 2024
February 2021
Sky ECC Criminal communications
- Lead
- Belgian Federal Police and Dutch National Police
- Result
- Encrypted traffic decrypted and monitored; infrastructure disrupted; large-scale searches and seizures on the action day.
- Accountability
- 48 apprehended
- Return status
- Not established in the public record
April 2020
EncroChat Criminal communications
- Lead
- French Gendarmerie and Dutch National Police
- Result
- Server infrastructure in France compromised by a law-enforcement implant; more than 100 million messages intercepted; network shut down and users warned by the operator.
- Accountability
- No individual outcomes recorded
- Return status
- Later activity recorded, link to the original not established
October 2018
ANOM Criminal communications
- Lead
- FBI and AFP
- Result
- Law enforcement operated the platform itself from inception; more than 27 million messages collected from roughly 12,000 devices across more than 300 criminal syndicates; network shut down at the action week.
- Accountability
- 9 charged
- Return status
- Later activity recorded, link to the original not established
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