Database of Physical Attacks Against Crypto Holders

[suhadi88]

Also what reason does an attacker has to hold a stolen item?

We don't know the specific reasons, but what you've said above is very relevant and fitting, as this isn't a question of bull or bear. The problem is that data footprints, public exposure, and weak opsec are controlled by individuals with strong discipline and experience in personal security, as they know no system is completely secure.

[Moreno233]

You deserve it if you get hit. What life taught me.

Have a good one.

BTW. Denmark is not on the list.

I don't agree with you on this because people need to know about Bitcoin, that is how Bitcoin will grow and get accepted by many. Assuming everyone kept to themselves about Bitcoin, do you think we would have gotten this far? A lot of us learnt about Bitcoin from friends who shared the idea with us for the love they have for us. There are many people who also joined due to social media posts from people who genuinely want to make Bitcoin known and used by many. Unfortunately everything is turning against genuine evangelists of Bitcoin and everyone is doing things in secret for security reasons. I don't know if Satoshi say this coming.

[Faisal2202]

I was not aware of this website before. Thanks for bringing this great site here. Some of the cases are really interesting and to be honest, I am always in search of such cases that I can document as an animated story (I use AI). Anyway, the site is great, the content in it is scary too but we should learn from them and never share with anyone how much bitcoin we own or are planning to buy. I sometimes talk in my posts here that I am going to buy bitcoin or bought bitcoin but nobody knows me here, like who I am so I feel safe.

If there were at least 1 guy who knows where I live, I would never share if I have bought, or if I am planning to buy in the future. For security reasons, that's the best we can do.

We should hide our wealth, no matter if its $1k, also don't check your portfolio when you are in public or while you are travelling somewhere. I once had a moment which was an accident that one of my cousins knew I was into crypto, so I don't know why he would say I bought bitcoin back in 2018, which is wrong btw, but he said that in the barber shop, haha, and one of the guys had a criminal background too. And the scary part is, he asked me the next time he met me, he tried to get the information like by telling me a lie, like you know how they play their psychological games to extract the information in the most general way that we don't even realize until we have already shared them.

Anyway I was not a newbie haha, so I said I did not bought in 2018 as a matter of fact I was not in the crypto at that time.

[ZAINmalik75]

You yourself said, while I condemn any form of attack I think it’s logical that why it is happening during the bullish cycle because this is the cycle where you see wealth been flaunt or best where you see most holders waking up their wallets due to movement of coins in and out of the wallet. Since this bearish sentiment started have you see news of any whale having his wallet wake up.

This attackers are very informative and interesting I don’t have information to back it up but it has many things to do with data breaches that we see around on even ledger wallets and we fail to take them seriously.  We need to ask what happens when data leaks. I think this list actually shows why there are more attacks on such data

Also what reason does an attacker has to hold a stolen item?

I was assuming but you made it sure. It is logical and the explanation that Pmalek gave below makes more sense. Because in a bull market, when price is going up from $60k to $120k and then $125k everyone is willing to buy, everyone is super bullish because they think at this price bitcoin will never dump. But this time it was not only the price that increased but the adoption from countries too. But on the other hand in bear market everyone wants to stay away from bitcoin because they think it is going down so there is no point in holding or buying it now.

In the same way scammers wait and they must be motivated by the victim's portfolio's value in the bull market. That's why privacy matters and we should never share with anyone how much we hold and simply moving funds from one wallet to another does not add any extra layer to privacy.

[Pmalek]

A data leak isn't the only danger of undergoing KYC and sharing your personal information with companies and institutions.

I came across some news last night in which it was said that a now ex-Revolut employee attempted to extort money from Revolut customers, threatening that he would leak their KYC data to the public if they don't pay him a ransom fee. Imagine that. You never know who on the other side can get access to your documents and personal data or what their motives are. Requests to undergo KYC might seem legit, but the people asking for it may be rogue or they could go rogue in the future.

[CryptSafe]

OP, this is quite a comprehensive list of such occurrences in the crypto space I must say and the article writer really took out time to compile this list for public view and I know it must have taken a whole lot of time to achieve it.
With respect to the subject of discussion, I think we should know that anything of this nature has a way of attracting people who have ill intentions of exploiting the process to get something out of it in the wrong way so I am not surprised to see the incessant attacks on people perceived to be Bitcoin and crypto holders in the society.

Well, this data base would help keep a record of attacks as reference point for those who cares so they could take caution and also their safety seriously by limiting the way they show off themselves whenever they have or buy crypto in addition to the already existing assets they have in their custody.

However, this would also call for more caution to crypto holders to take their privacy very seriously because most of these attacks can likely be as a result of data or information leakage which the assets holders might not be knowledgeable about and in some cases, they intentionally flaunt their assets showing and letting the public know what they already got in stock which end up attracting criminals to themselves.