One Bitcoiner Kidnapped Weekly, Warns SatoshiLabs Founder

Speaking on Baltic Honeybadger 2025 Event in RigaShe explained that Criminals use violence to force the victims to give up the keys to the walletAnd that happens regularly.

Vranova said, “Every week there is a bitcoiner, at least one in the world, who is abducted, tortured, extorted, and sometimes worse.”

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She noted that the problem was Not limited to rich or early investors of bitcoin. Even people with Targets are smaller shares. Some abductions have only completed $ 6,000 in cryptocurrencies and the killings are associated with about $ 50,000.

Vranova said it was 2025. On the way to see more physical attacks on Bitcoin owners than any previous year. This increase pushed the merchants, developers and company managers to be more careful about their personal security.

One of the reasons of increasing is A large amount of personal data leaked from centralized crypto exchange and other services.

These companies collect user data, including identification documents and home addresses, for the purpose of checking. If this information is leaked, it can help criminals find and target victims.

Vranova said:

We currently have more than 80 million Bitcoiner and the Crypto identity of the users who have leaked online; 2.2 million of those contain home addresses.

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