Alena Vranova, founder of Satoshilabs, warned against the increase in key attacks, physical assaults and kidnappings against bitcoin (BTC) and crypto holders to try to steal their private keys.
“Each week, there is a bitcoiner, at least one in the world, which is kidnapped, tortured, extorted and sometimes worse”, Vranova said The public of the Baltic Honeybadger 2025 conference in Riga, in Latvia.
She warned that even small cryptographic investors can be on the radar of violent criminals looking for a target. She added:
“What seems to be a problem only for Bitcoin Ogs is not really the case. We have seen cases of kidnappings for as little as $ 6,000 in crypto, and we saw murdered people for $ 50,000 in crypto.”
Increased Key attacks against crypto holders is a disturbing trend, with physical attacks against bitcoins in 2025 on the right track Double the worst year never recordedencourage personal security countermeasures Investors, developers and industry executives.
In relation: Key attacks lead cryptographic investors to centralized guards
Centralized data leaks magnify the threat of key attack
Data leaks from crypto-centralization exchanges, which collect sensitive user information under know your customer (KYC) The requirements and other centralized software suppliers that collect customer data, allow violent criminals to target crypto holders and their families.
“We currently have more than 80 million identities of Bitcoiner and Crypto users disclosed online; 2.2 million of these contain domestic addresses,” said Vranova.
These attacks are correlated with bitcoin prices, and the frequency of attacks increases on the bruise markets, she added.
In May, Crypto Exchange Coinbase revealed a data violation has disclosed the information A small subset of Coinbase customers, which included domestic addresses and other identification information.
In June, a report Cybernews have discovered databases containing more than 16 billion identities of user connection disclosed from platforms like Apple, Facebook and Google.
Password leakage Negative impact of crypto holderswhich will now be subject to an increase in phishing, social engineering, hacking, identity theft and other types of targeted scams designed to steal user data and funds.
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