The $11 million Crypto heist is a call for everyone to learn.

[Joy_learns_crypto]

$11 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from a man at his home in San Francisco. This heist is part of other heists, kidnapping that has been targeted at Cryptocurrency owners.
Cryptocurrency is a digital asset but criminals are now using physical force to collect it from cryptocurrency owners .


According to https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/us-news/san-francisco-thief-posing-as-delivery-person-steals-11m-in-crypto-heist/ details of the suspect has been withheld for now by the authorities as they continue their investigation, in the article from the above site the suspect pretended to be a delivery guy to gain access to the victim’s home where he was forced with a gun by the suspect to give up his cryptocurrency.
Many news reports the same event and it is causing debates and uncertainties in the cryptocurrency industry.

Cryptocurrency heist are bad but we can look at the good part which is taking the heist, kidnapping connected to cryptocurrency holders and guide our own.


Guiding ourselves and the cryptocurrency we own

1. As a cryptocurrency business owner leave your identity out of it, except you are a celebrity or a popular influencer that you identity can help the business you should not associate yourself to the business. Showing off or boosting that you own a cryptocurrency business is not more important than your protection. According to https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-21/former-lapd-officer-eric-halem-bail-hearing
A 17 year old cryptocurrency business owner was kidnapped.

2. careful when teaching cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency charity and outreach startups.
3. Trust kills faster than an arrow, don’t trust friends, family about your cryptocurrency information most especially when you have big amounts of cryptocurrency.
4. Trade P2P cautiously reducing the occurrence of revealing your information to the buyer.
5. Don’t pertain yourself in all cryptocurrency groups, pages, news on socials with account that has your identifiable information.

[Charles-Tim]

Another thing is that someone should expect something like this. If I am living in United States, I can buy gun for my own protection. I will prefer a small pistol, rifle and snipper rifle. There is nothing bad to always have the pistol with you which will protect the man against thieves.

Another thing is that it is good to be able to hide your coins in case of something like this while you will have small amount of bitcoin on some wallets that the attacker will only see.

Privacy is also most important in preventing this.

[Ishicryptic]

Thanks for sharing yet another incident if cryptocurrency theft, it is very worrisome that you are not only in danger of losing your coins to robbers you are also in danger of being harmed by them. The same advice that is given in every thread that I have seen similar stories is what I will reiterate here and that is to keep your crypto holdings private. If the public don't know that you own cryptocurrency they won't plan to attach you and forcefully steal your coins from you.

Aside from strangers knowing about our crypto information we should also be careful about revealing to family and friends, not all of them will be happy for you that you have a crypto stash. But it is still essential that somebody should know about our cryptocurrency Incase the unexpected happens like death or accident that affects the brain to remember, if nobody knows about your cryptocurrency it means that it is gone forever. It's a tough choice to make, it's not easy to trust but you can take your chances and let atleast one trusted person to know.

[Obim34]

Sometimes it may not be that the victim opened up publicly about his crypto holdings, some cases maybe from intel within close relation or probably a mix up that might have leaked personal crypto informations.

We may not be able to stop theft or attacks but strategically, splitting our holdings into separate wallets will lessen losses during physical attacks.

Hold the biggest portfolio in an offline wallet, then have something casual in a hot wallet, when your holdings are not disclosed, as little will be found in your wallet is the least they can steal.

[Joy_learns_crypto]

Another thing is that it is good to be able to hide your coins in case of something like this while you will have small amount of bitcoin on some wallets that the attacker will only see.

This is good, having a wallet for a small amount of bitcoin that can buy you an escape from a heist. Also for this country wey police self fit thief person. having a small amount of bitcoin in a wallet to show when you have to other choice because you are under duress to show them.

Sometimes it may not be that the victim opened up publicly about his crypto holdings, some cases maybe from intel within close relation or probably a mix up that might have leaked personal crypto informations.

This de under don’t trust friends and family, e De the post. Either to harm you are a harmless mistake friends and family with expose your cryptocurrency connection to people wey bad.

[sokani]

Cryptocurrency heist are bad but we can look at the good part which is taking the heist, kidnapping connected to cryptocurrency holders and guide our own.

I think you wanted to write taking lessons from the crypto heist.

Your advice is good, but one thing I learnt from this unfortunate incident is that if you have a very large bag, it good to spread it across multiple wallets or HW devices. Don't just keep it on one device. That way, if something like this should happen, if the thief gets one part, others will still be intact.

[JimaGod]

Make una try Dey remember say, the world we Dey inside na very cruel one and everybody Dey find every slightest opportunity to take make abnormal money and lately na people wey get coins dem don Dey attack plenty and this very news na another evidence say we need Dey ok our widas and make we no Dey too disclose our bitcoin matter with people and even if you wan teach person about bitcoin, den make we try not to mention anything about say you get coins as that one alone go save us from plenty wahala wey we fit no even imagine.

By now, people wey already get coins for their wallet suppose don understand say, all those kind things no be wetin you use brag especially for dis our bad belle country make street no use you shine clean mouth.
As Oyibo talk, a word is enough for the wise.

[Su-asa]

Guiding ourselves and the cryptocurrency we own

1. As a cryptocurrency business owner leave your identity out of it, except you are a celebrity or a popular influencer that you identity can help the business you should not associate yourself to the business.

As a matter of facts, even though you are an influencer or a celebrity, you know not showcase your crypto assets online or even make it public that you know about crypto currency because the Internet is the worst place with a lot of bad people. Not all fans have good intentions towards an influencer/celebrity. So we should treat with caution anytime we are talking about crypto currency.
Even scared to tell people about crypto currency because by telling people about crypto currency they just picture you as someone who already have a lot of Bitcoin.

[Hewlet]

1. As a cryptocurrency business owner leave your identity out of it, except you are a celebrity or a popular influencer that you identity can help the business you should not associate yourself to the business.

Cases of theft and kidnapping has been on the rise and one thing everyone should take away from what's happening is that anyone can be the victim and that mean that even you're into crypto or not, you are still liable to bring attacked.

The cases of frequent kidnapping that's been recorded in our nation almost on a daily bases has shown that for our case, it's not just crypto traders or investors that are targeted. Almost everyone is a target and the best we can do for ourselves is to leave a low profile life so we don't attract them to us. Wether you're a crypto investor or not, at this point in time, we all ought to exercise an high level of vigilance.

[Mr Reporter]

Guiding ourselves and the cryptocurrency we own
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As a matter of facts, even though you are an influencer or a celebrity, you know not showcase your crypto assets online or even make it public that you know about crypto currency because the Internet is the worst place with a lot of bad people.

See my guy not only influencer or celebrities them even commoners like us to also need to hold our mouth on the type of information you share about crypto and this are the little details we miss most times keeping as secrets that we have cryptocurrency this thing you just made mention of reminded me of a person I know in my area, which was always posting about cryptocurrency on his WhatsApp status, funny enough, a friend that knows him very well organized boys to attack him while he was coming back from work so since then this has really taught me lesson not to disclose on social media about MY crypto earnings or holding crypto or even trying to gist with a friend about me having cryptocurrency, and then this this person I’m speaking of was even hospitalized after all the investigation with the police then to jealousy by a friend who was viewing his status and then had to plan against his friend. This was a very great lesson to everybody.

[Sticky Bomb]

Another thing is that someone should expect something like this. If I am living in United States, I can buy gun for my own protection. I will prefer a small pistol, rifle and snipper rifle. There is nothing bad to always have the pistol with you which will protect the man against thieves.

It's good to have weapons around but trust me, that guy was compromised when he least expected danger since the guy came as a delivery guy. Do you approach the delivery guy wielding a gun? The mistake I know he made was opening the door to his apartment to receive the package without validating the source of the delivery since it's obvious he wasn't the person that placed the order, else the delivery company would've mentioned in the report cooperating with the police on the thief's identity

Another thing is that it is good to be able to hide your coins in case of something like this while you will have small amount of bitcoin on some wallets that the attacker will only see.

This is a good point, keep the main holding away and a smaller portion for damage control in case of necessity.

Privacy is also most important in preventing this.

Yes since a thief doesn't waste his time attacking on discussions but on credible information.

[IceLincoln]

Guiding ourselves and the cryptocurrency we own
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As a matter of facts, even though you are an influencer or a celebrity, you know not showcase your crypto assets online or even make it public that you know about crypto currency because the Internet is the worst place with a lot of bad people.

See my guy not only influencer or celebrities them even commoners like us to also need to hold our mouth on the type of information you share about crypto and this are the little details we miss most times keeping as secrets that we have cryptocurrency this thing you just made mention of reminded me of a person I know in my area, which was always posting about cryptocurrency on his WhatsApp status, funny enough, a friend that knows him very well organized boys to attack him while he was coming back from work so since then this has really taught me lesson not to disclose on social media about MY crypto earnings or holding crypto or even trying to gist with a friend about me having cryptocurrency, and then this this person I’m speaking of was even hospitalized after all the investigation with the police then to jealousy by a friend who was viewing his status and then had to plan against his friend. This was a very great lesson to everybody.

Omo people gats Dey take advices seriously, all this time wey dem go Dey say “don’t tell anyone you own crypto” people Dey take am play.
This man wey OP Dey write about fit don tell one or two persons say him own such amount of crypto or he Dey do doings wey make men know say him hold that kind amount. Sometimes even family and friends, e get as e be to tell them say you get crypto.
The advice wey Charles-Tim drop Dey very valid e get the kind crypto you go get like this u gats divide am into two wallets.

[Hatchy]

With the current insecurity in the country, it would be worse to let your crypto identity be known to the public. One has to be careful these days because anyone can be targeted. We have to stay alert always and be ready for anything that may hit us even if you don't have a rifle just be sure to have a small weapon around at anytime to defend yourself against these criminals or kidnappers. As for crypto education, I don't usually buy the idea because to me it's very risky. Except you are teaching some school kids but you still have to be very careful because of how dangerous it is out there you don't know who is related to a criminal and might share information about your crypto investments to them.

[BIT-BENDER]

Guiding ourselves and the cryptocurrency we own

1. As a cryptocurrency business owner leave your identity out of it, except you are a celebrity or a popular influencer that you identity can help the business you should not associate yourself to the business.

As a matter of facts, even though you are an influencer or a celebrity, you know not showcase your crypto assets online or even make it public that you know about crypto currency because the Internet is the worst place with a lot of bad people. Not all fans have good intentions towards an influencer/celebrity. So we should treat with caution anytime we are talking about crypto currency.
Even scared to tell people about crypto currency because by telling people about crypto currency they just picture you as someone who already have a lot of Bitcoin.

But already as an influencer or celebrity you are expected to walk around with security and have your house very secure. For example Don jazzy doesn't need to show his crypto-currency wallet before you know he is rich. So it is easy to understand what the OP means because there are some Crypto-currency business that the image of someone popular can help boost the business. But if you must show your relations to crypto-currency be heavily secured.

[NurseHub]

Personally I think that self protection against attacks is one thing we should consider, next is to make sure that people we call friends are not frenemies who are not genuinely happy with you because often times someone close is the orchestrator of this kind of attacks.

secondly we should use the advice we have gotten from Bitcointalk forum on how to go about our secret phrase, on physical attacks you can't reach out to your devices or the secret phrases quickly before it can be gotten them it will definitely delay for help to come.

[Asiska02]

Celebrities and influencers can get access to police and other security agents that will protect them, so most of them are even safe even after exposing their faces to the public. Everyone knows better where their lapses are and how to better stay safe in this world today. Don’t treat dangers with less caution but rather with more caution that can help safeguard you for the future.

Criminals now know how big the crypto industry is and how a lot of people get to make money through it, so just by flaunting your wallet, you’re already on their list to be tracked. Stop changing followers and likes at the expense of your safety, it’ll cost you much sooner or later and you’ll realize just how naive you are in dealing with your security which is to be of utmost importance to you.

[igebotz]

But already as an influencer or celebrity you are expected to walk around with security and have your house very secure. For example Don jazzy doesn't need to show his crypto-currency wallet before you know he is rich. So it is easy to understand what the OP means because there are some Crypto-currency business that the image of someone popular can help boost the business. But if you must show your relations to crypto-currency be heavily secured.

In our culture it more like a show off nowadays, you don't need to be a millionaire to have one, and they're affordable and the process is quite easy. In the Western world it's quite difficulty and expensive, the rate of insecurity is minimal and the chances of getting kidnapped is low too. We see billionaires, millionaires, famous football players walking casually on the streets of UK without body guards.

Poeple out there live a reckless lifestyle, they trust so much in their country security system - can't blame them

Using your face and influence to help your business is one thing, flaunting your stash and drawing attention to yourself is another. We should know the difference..

[Felicity_Tide]

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Privacy is also most important in preventing this.

Something tells me that the whole heist was carefully planned.
A random person won't just dress up as a pizza guy and goes to a random house, demanding that the house owner should transfer their entire crypto assets. I want to assume that there was either a breach in privacy, maybe accidentally, or the victim is well known. The truth is, financial privacy is underrated, until someone eventually falls victim, because it always happens when someone least expected.

And Nigeria now is another Cinema on its own. Despite the level of insecurity, you will still find people putting themselves at risk. The thing is, avoiding such criminals is possible to some extent especially when we learn to keep things private, but in the case of Nigeria, I'm not sure of how long it can be, since all they do now is kidnap both those who looks rich and those who look poor, which is unlike those foreign cases where they probably work with info.

[Mr Reporter]

But already as an influencer or celebrity you are expected to walk around with security and have your house very secure. For example Don jazzy doesn't need to show his crypto-currency wallet before you know he is rich. So it is easy to understand what the OP means because there are some Crypto-currency business that the image of someone popular can help boost the business. But if you must show your relations to crypto-currency be heavily secured.

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Poeple out there live a reckless lifestyle, they trust so much in their country security system - can't blame them

Well maybe you are kinda of right, well most time we get to hear that some folks over abroad just roll freely and having much trust with thier security system and just put their faith in the state’s protection. I feel this might not be too comfortable when you think the cops got your back in Nigeria, see I doubt if Nigeria police can be trusted this much having to get your back when you need them. Nigeria insecurity taught us not to even believe that security ever exist, in fact, if Nigerian police station can close gas station by 6 PM that’s enough reason for someone not to two trust this system

[Cryptoprincess101]

Inasmuch as anything money or related to money is concerned, you cannot completely guide yourself from thieves and criminals and sometimes it's not even about exposing that you are into cryptocurrency, how do you earn it? because if you are working and you are being paid in cryptocurrency, your boss or a colleague who does same job with you can still plot evil against you because we have seen situations with fiats when a boss will sends his boy to go to the bank and withdraw money, then he will still send a gang to go and rob him of the money. In the world we live today, there are people who are just busy monitoring the life and activity of other people which is why we shouldn't keep all our money in one crypto wallet so that in such situation you can compromise one of your wallets while the others will be left untampered. The most important thing is that never expose to anyone about how much you own crypto.