🔴 The dark side of crypto: an investor was arrested in New York for kidnapping in exchange for a $BTC wallet password
— A crypto investor has been arrested in New York, accused of kidnapping and torturing a citizen of Italy. The goal was to extort the password to a bitcoin wallet.
— According to the prosecutor's office:
• the victim was held for several weeks
• beaten, electrocuted, threatened with death
• the victim managed to escape and contact the police
📉 The reputational consequences for the crypto market are toxic: such cases fuel the rhetoric about the "wild west" in digital assets and may increase pressure from regulators.
Historical fact: crypto has been the cause of violent crimes before — in 2017 in Ukraine, an EXMO analyst was kidnapped, and in 2020 in the Netherlands, the owner of a hardware wallet was tortured.
Security ≠ just a seed phrase. Subscribe — we will tell you how to protect yourself both online and in real life 🔴
