Dutch police hack into ‘uncrackable’ BlackBerry

Nothing is uncrackable: In a potential blow to BlackBerry, a report said Dutch police had extracted some 325 encrypted e-mails from a BlackBerry 9720 and managed to open 279 of them.

THE HAGUE: Dutch police confirmed they have found a way to hack into messages on BlackBerry data-encrypted smartphones, which claim to be the world’s most secure communications devices. 

The news first leaked in December on a Dutch blog Misdaadnieuws.com which revealed that the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) had broken into Blackberries equipped with the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption programme.