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The 678K records include names, addresses and emails but not crypto ownership flags, giving criminals a wealth-target directory to cross-reference against on-chain footprints and prior leaks.
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…
41 kidnappings so far this year — roughly one every 2.5 days — point to France as the epicenter of physical-extortion crime against crypto holders, driven by centralized KYC data leaks.
CertiK counts 34 verified physical-coercion incidents since January — a 41% YoY jump — with Europe absorbing 82% of cases and France emerging as the continent's clearest concentration of…
The new 1–7 day freeze is the first major exchange feature aimed squarely at physical coercion, not phishing — and it lands as CertiK data shows 75% more wrench attacks in 2025.
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