It was because they were compromised. How could they stay in business at that point?

Here's the message they sent to all their users telling them to destroy their devices; https://mobile.twitter.com/aglongo/status/127576694551055974...

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/5dz9qx/encrochat-hack...

> "We have been forced to make the difficult decision to shut down our service and our business permanently," the person wrote in an email to Motherboard. "This [sic] following several attacks carried out by a foreign organization that seems to originate in the UK."

Both of these are from before the authorities went public today

Permanently? Just change the encryption. Something fishy?

Their credibility was shot, though, who would buy from them again? They just told everyone they were completely pwned.