[1] After its shutdown, criminal users fled to alternatives including ANOM, which turned out to be a honeypot run by the FBI.
Vincent Ramos did not provide login information or backdoors to Phantom Secure, deciding to instead serve the max sentence given, which was nine years in US prison.
[3][4] It was said to have provided "secure communications to high-level drug traffickers and other criminal organization leaders" according to a 2018 FBI takedown announcement.
Customers included members of the Sinaloa Cartel,[6] and the FBI reportedly asked Ramos to plant a backdoor in Phantom Secure's encrypted network, which he refused to do.
Cameron Ortis was director general of the National Intelligence Coordination Centre, a branch of the RCMP that specialised in analytics.