Overview

• The Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office has initiated 605 individual legal proceedings linked to the compromised encrypted service since its 2020 breach
• Authorities have secured indictments in 240 cases while 117 were dismissed for insufficient evidence
• Eighty-eight cases remain open, with 85 under prosecutorial review and three still at the investigative stage
• About 1.6 million chat messages from roughly 750 Berlin users were collected during the operation
• Decrypted communications are driving prosecutions for drug trafficking, money laundering and armed gang crime