Telegram founder Pavel Durov has publicly accused French tax authorities of selling personal data belonging to cryptocurrency holders, claiming the leaks directly enabled 41 kidnappings in France so far this year. Durov did not specify the source of his figure but framed the allegation as a systemic failure at the intersection of state data handling and crypto-owner targeting.
The accusation lands at a sensitive moment for Durov, who is himself under French legal scrutiny. If the claim holds any evidentiary weight, it raises serious questions about how tax agencies store and control KYC-linked financial data — and who has access to it.
For the broader crypto community, the episode is a stark reminder that regulatory compliance creates data trails, and those trails carry real physical-world risk when custody of that data is compromised.
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