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The mistake is absurd, but the pattern isn't: a 2024 French tax-office breach turned crypto holders into fixed targets. Chainalysis counts at least 30 wrench attacks in France in H1 2026 alone.
Criminals are targeting the people behind private keys, making personal safety and access controls central to crypto risk management.
Frequency slowed in Q2 but first-half exposure surged more than 1,000% year-on-year, with France and Western Europe absorbing most of the incidents.
Once attackers move beyond named executives and mine public records, vanity wallets, leaked KYC and conference photos become the attack surface; the response is delay, multisig, and operational…
French Interior Minister Nuñez reported a sharp year-on-year jump from 45 cases in 2025, with around 200 arrests so far as emergency security measures for crypto figures begin to bite.
The FBI's San Francisco office unsealed charges against three men accused of posing as delivery workers, kidnapping crypto holders, and forcing transfers at gunpoint — a rare federal case tying…
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