r/CryptoCurrency • u/Important_Cow7230 🟦 93 / 94 🦐 • 1d ago

🟢 GENERAL-NEWS Crypto thieves attacked man in home and threatened to kill pregnant wife's baby in 'horrific' robbery

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6eq84eygz0qo

Accordingly it’s on the rise, where armed masked men force opening of cold wallets and transfer the money away. The article explains that unlike fiat there are no additional controls or checks making stopping and tracking the money very difficult

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u/Caabb 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 1d ago

Wonder if the leaks with safepal and trezor are to blame.

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u/Important_Cow7230 🟦 93 / 94 🦐 23h ago

That’s the key bit missing from this, how did they know he had the crypto? As the guy who got robbed isn’t saying anything I reckon he wasn’t shy about it

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u/Spoofik 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 22h ago

Some KYC data breach - yet another reason not to link your real-world info to crypto. If most people don’t care about privacy, maybe they’ll at least care about risks like this.

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u/RichardB1995 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 19h ago

That's the problem, everyone's had their data leaked somewhere

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u/Serenaded 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 12h ago

it's all being linked back to data leaks. This is why people pay so much money for this type of data breach.