Divorced wife steal ex-husband bitcoin wallet password using CCTV

[Youngrebel]

I did not know if they have been divorced at the time, but according to the court, it is an estranged wife. The oldest daughter of the ex-husband tell her father the plan of his ex-wife. The father used CCTV to know that her ex-wife used CCTV to know where the password of his Trezor is which is a six digit code. Used it to steal his 2,323.28423347 BTC, sent the bitcoin to 71 bitcoin addresses which remain dormant since 2023 after it was stolen.

I wanted to post this in scam accusation board but I think beginners and help board can be helpful for some people to also see it, especially the newbies. We really need to be careful and protect our coins. There are just some mistakes that we may not know and we should make sure no camera is watching us while backing up our seed phrase, passphrass, private key, wallet password or while using our wallet, What if it is an online wallet, some people will blame it on malware, but not knowing that it is someone around someone that did the thing.

I am not yet saying the defendant is not innocent and neither am I saying she is innocent, but there is possibility that something like this can happen.

https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2026001715/2026ewhc532kb_TNA/html

You might want to probe futher probably how the bitcoin was first accumulated. Either through both parties and one was trying to claim it to himself alone.
In as much as women could be mischievous  but even men too contributes to that attitude sometimes.  So you might want to get more details.

[DYING_S0UL]

Sadly, it does prove again we can't trust even our family members, either wife or husband. I have read this news from the Google newsfeed. Good to see you post it here to make us aware of this story; I will say it's not a sad story at all but sad story. Our small mistake would destroy our life; if we can't protect our funds, then it will be hard to survive when we lose them. We have to secure our seed and password somewhere; it's not about backup only; it's also important to make sure our funds are accessible to our next generation upon death.

This story would be a lesson for us, but it's a costly lesson for the loser. We should back up everything but not under CCTV or radar. Also need to make sure family members are trusted; at least keep your password secret. So easily can't access your device unless someone acquired your seed phrase.

What happened was really unfortunate, but we shouldn't say things about our loved ones because of that. This was only a separate incident. But yeah, this story can serve as a reminder that, "Many of these crypto thefts that we hear every day are not hacking, but they are caused by human mistakes and carelessness."

If I talk about myself, my family knows I am involved with something called Crypto. But they have no idea what that is, how that is, why that is. Not a single clue. And I have never taught them much about these. When the time comes, I might. But for now, they should just remain in the dark. It's best kept that way. And even if I gave them the seed, they wouldn't know twhat that is.

Anyway, I was wondering what happened to the case? I did checked the link provided by OP, but it was so massive that I could read it all. Did the man got his coins back? Or is it still ongoing? Let me know if any of you are aware.

[Felicity_Tide]

No, we still need to trust our loved ones, because it is for their well-being that we have to work so hard. And what will happen to these bitcoins if an accident occurs and no one knows about their existence, or they will know but will not be able to use these savings?

Yeah, just because we had one or few cases doesn't mean that we have to start setting a gap where there shouldn't be one. I don't think anyone has ever thought of putting a ban on cars just because accidents happen. Well, I personally haven't understood what transpired in the entire story because it was very brief in the OP. All I have to say is that, if the woman is found guilty, and the court sees it as stealing, then she might have to face the consequences of her actions. From the look of things, it wasn't given to her willingly, which tells us enough already.

I was a bit surprised when someone from the first page of the reply thinks that there might be some justifiable reasons to what she did. Well, let's see how she explains that in court, especially if the funds where never hers, and she was never entitled to a penny.

[Rgram]

You might want to probe futher probably how the bitcoin was first accumulated. Either through both parties and one was trying to claim it to himself alone.
In as much as women could be mischievous  but even men too contributes to that attitude sometimes.  So you might want to get more details.

Well, even if that was the case, I think there is every chance that the bot parties would have had an accord on how this accumulation or portfolio building was being done and it doesn’t really matter who was accumulating more than the other or though, that could be put into context too but, the bottom line remains that, she didn’t only take that which would have being rightfully hers in that eventuality of a co-ownership but she as well wiped off all that could have belonged to the husband. That’s still you having to steal!

[PX-Z]

It means the wife has the knowledge of bitcoin or basic tech about how to operate and use a wallet. If the evidence and proof is solid, simply it's thief and should be sued and recover full amount or at least of what remained plus all the damage, emotional, etc.

What happened was really unfortunate, but we shouldn't say things about our loved ones because of that. This was only a separate incident. But yeah, this story can serve as a reminder that, "Many of these crypto thefts that we hear every day are not hacking, but they are caused by human mistakes and carelessness.".

It really depends, so many factors to consider about this before going to have a conclusion to not to trust those people you will engage everyday from morning to sleep. But yes, still its good to be cautious, be wary, unless you're going to give them those holdings and you are going to pass away anyway lol.

[m2017]

What happened was really unfortunate, but we shouldn't say things about our loved ones because of that. This was only a separate incident. But yeah, this story can serve as a reminder that, "Many of these crypto thefts that we hear every day are not hacking, but they are caused by human mistakes and carelessness."

Is this really an isolated incident? After every divorce, the ex-wife takes half of her ex-husband's property.

In this story, the wife essentially acted deliberately, like a hacker using technical means (video cameras). The victimized husband can't be entirely blamed for carelessness and human error, as he was being deliberately "hunted". Still, he could have avoided the problems if he had more carefully concealed the PIN \ password (he hardly entered the seed-phrase every time) to access the wallet of a person he had lived with for many years and trusted implicitly.

If I talk about myself, my family knows I am involved with something called Crypto. But they have no idea what that is, how that is, why that is. Not a single clue. And I have never taught them much about these. When the time comes, I might. But for now, they should just remain in the dark. It's best kept that way. And even if I gave them the seed, they wouldn't know twhat that is.

Life is unpredictable. Therefore, it's always best to have a "Plan B" so it's not too late to teach your loved ones the basics of using cryptocurrencies.

Anyway, I was wondering what happened to the case? I did checked the link provided by OP, but it was so massive that I could read it all. Did the man got his coins back? Or is it still ongoing? Let me know if any of you are aware.

I learned from other sources that the court rejected the injured husband's appeal, citing that the law protects property rights, while cryptocurrencies are not tangible property (in their opinion). So, in effect, he has lost the case. The victim's lawyers will likely be able to address the situation through the law on "unjust enrichment". I'm sure this story will continue, because the victim is unlikely to want to give up so easily with the loss of 2,323.28423347 BTC.

[Nathrixxx]

Privacy bridge could come in any format if we are not careful, once we talk about restricting a third party from having access to any of our assets, then we have to monitor and be more observant to everything that may lead to such leakage of our private information, especially when we are into cryptocurrency, we already know how they have been devising new method to ensure that they use in new trick to scam others that may not be aware of the trending route to rip them off their coins, while information like this will always be passed across on this platform.

[Publictalk792]

Most people will think at first look that it is computer virus that has stolen their money, this fact shows that physical watching is far more common and scary weakness. In order to stay safe, it is very important to use your personal keys in room that is not fitted with cameras or other smart tools, and to add to their protection with extra safety steps such as 25th word passphrase or multi-sign wallet. This will make sure that in case someone sees your main recovery words, they will still not be able to get your money, keeping your money safe from both high tech and low tech bad software as well as home watching.

[UchihaSarada]

Most people will think at first look that it is computer virus that has stolen their money, this fact shows that physical watching is far more common and scary weakness. In order to stay safe, it is very important to use your personal keys in room that is not fitted with cameras or other smart tools, and to add to their protection with extra safety steps such as 25th word passphrase or multi-sign wallet. This will make sure that in case someone sees your main recovery words, they will still not be able to get your money, keeping your money safe from both high tech and low tech bad software as well as home watching.

Many threats can steal their wallets and coins and virus, malwares are only one of many possible threats. With such threats, they can not rely on Antivirus softtwares, Internet security softwares to keep their computers, phones and devices safe. It's because these softwares will always have false negative and sometimes they will fail to detect newest threats so that your devices will be compromised.

The best way is maintaining your good practice on your devices and on Internet, it's better than any software.

[Ojima-ojo]

You might want to probe futher probably how the bitcoin was first accumulated. Either through both parties and one was trying to claim it to himself alone.
In as much as women could be mischievous  but even men too contributes to that attitude sometimes.  So you might want to get more details.

Well, even if that was the case, I think there is every chance that the bot parties would have had an accord on how this accumulation or portfolio building was being done and it doesn’t really matter who was accumulating more than the other or though, that could be put into context too but, the bottom line remains that, she didn’t only take that which would have being rightfully hers in that eventuality of a co-ownership but she as well wiped off all that could have belonged to the husband. That’s still you having to steal!

For all I care this case shouldn't be treated as scam case, but rather a family issue that can be resolved, the husband raised the case as the victim, but on the extent that both parties have been involved in the Bitcoin accumulation in one way or the other, this is what we should clear off first before adding any sentiment to what we speculate on this case.


Besides this case have not been fully registered by the husband according to the link, so he should know better how the whole Bitcoin movement took place.

[Jessie2121]

I did not know if they have been divorced at the time, but according to the court, it is an estranged wife. The oldest daughter of the ex-husband tell her father the plan of his ex-wife. The father used CCTV to know that her ex-wife used CCTV to know where the password of his Trezor is which is a six digit code. Used it to steal his 2,323.28423347 BTC, sent the bitcoin to 71 bitcoin addresses which remain dormant since 2023 after it was stolen.

I wanted to post this in scam accusation board but I think beginners and help board can be helpful for some people to also see it, especially the newbies. We really need to be careful and protect our coins. There are just some mistakes that we may not know and we should make sure no camera is watching us while backing up our seed phrase, passphrass, private key, wallet password or while using our wallet, What if it is an online wallet, some people will blame it on malware, but not knowing that it is someone around someone that did the thing.

I am not yet saying the defendant is not innocent and neither am I saying she is innocent, but there is possibility that something like this can happen.

https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2026001715/2026ewhc532kb_TNA/html

I think this has to do with lack of trust in this case or should I say selfish act by the wife, sometimes the people we wish well don't always appreciate what we do for them. Maybe the wife had already planned this act for long and waiting for the perfect time to deliver, divorcing first before causing the damage, that is if they really had a divorce. Let's see it this way, she might have seen how much and the only way to get some is by stealing it or they talked about it and the man never had any plan on giving her something from it, there are many options that could lead to this or let's say the man in question is not the giving type so she had to use the plan B. We can't say we are doing things the right way like protecting our passcodes or our seed phrase or password, because we don't know who's watching or has been watching while we do our thing.

[Franctoshi]

I did not know if they have been divorced at the time, but according to the court, it is an estranged wife. The oldest daughter of the ex-husband tell her father the plan of his ex-wife. The father used CCTV to know that her ex-wife used CCTV to know where the password of his Trezor is which is a six digit code. Used it to steal his 2,323.28423347 BTC, sent the bitcoin to 71 bitcoin addresses which remain dormant since 2023 after it was stolen.

I wanted to post this in scam accusation board but I think beginners and help board can be helpful for some people to also see it, especially the newbies. We really need to be careful and protect our coins. There are just some mistakes that we may not know and we should make sure no camera is watching us while backing up our seed phrase, passphrass, private key, wallet password or while using our wallet, What if it is an online wallet, some people will blame it on malware, but not knowing that it is someone around someone that did the thing.

I am not yet saying the defendant is not innocent and neither am I saying she is innocent, but there is possibility that something like this can happen.

https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2026001715/2026ewhc532kb_TNA/html

This sounds funny and untrue story, and how is it possible that this happened? I'm just reasoning the situation; however, the wife must be a Bitcoin Pro to be able to do this and get this knowledge of distributing the Bitcoin into 71 different Bitcoin addresses and leaving it until date. I'm even wondering how she will be able to store their seed phrases, the 71 addresses that she created. It's obvious that she's not the only one involved in this act; other OGs are involved.

[Nwadiche]

You just referred her as his wife , meaning he trusted her, but in life tomorrow is never promised, he didn’t know she will betrayed him with that , that is their home , they both live together, maybe that is what she want to use to get back at him , and I think their is no trust in their home , with or without cctv cameras, our home should be our safe place .

I would even say men should be careful with women of this generation now , don’t let yourself be carried away with love , during our university days , there is one my coursemate who is always bragging about her boyfriend, that he gave her his seed phrase in case anything happened to him, whenever they have issues , she will come to the class to tells us it’s seems that guy has forgot she has his secret seed phrase , we should really be careful anyway, with which ever way we can .

[Pablo-wood]

The Claimant wouldn't have known whom to hold if the eldest daughter had not leaked out some secrets. Of a truth hardware wallet is not enough one still has to be accountable for their actions and intentional about how the save their device to avoid thefts like this. Imagine how all the assets were sent to different addresses that has not had a transaction before. In this kind of case it would have taken almost forever to discover who were really behind those addresses. This is just a call to every bitcoin owner either cold or hardware storage user to safe guard their seed phrase. Writing them on a plain paper without properly and secretly hiding them can cost one losing everything we have really worked hard for within a flash.

[uchegod-21]

I did not know if they have been divorced at the time, but according to the court, it is an estranged wife. The oldest daughter of the ex-husband tell her father the plan of his ex-wife. The father used CCTV to know that her ex-wife used CCTV to know where the password of his Trezor is which is a six digit code. Used it to steal his 2,323.28423347 BTC, sent the bitcoin to 71 bitcoin addresses which remain dormant since 2023 after it was stolen.

I wanted to post this in scam accusation board but I think beginners and help board can be helpful for some people to also see it, especially the newbies. We really need to be careful and protect our coins. There are just some mistakes that we may not know and we should make sure no camera is watching us while backing up our seed phrase, passphrass, private key, wallet password or while using our wallet, What if it is an online wallet, some people will blame it on malware, but not knowing that it is someone around someone that did the thing.

I am not yet saying the defendant is not innocent and neither am I saying she is innocent, but there is possibility that something like this can happen.

https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2026001715/2026ewhc532kb_TNA/html

This sounds funny and untrue story, and how is it possible that this happened? I'm just reasoning the situation; however, the wife must be a Bitcoin Pro to be able to do this and get this knowledge of distributing the Bitcoin into 71 different Bitcoin addresses and leaving it until date. I'm even wondering how she will be able to store their seed phrases, the 71 addresses that she created. It's obvious that she's not the only one involved in this act; other OGs are involved.

Have you thought of the possibility that she married him just with the sole intention of taking everything away from him? We have seen wives file for divorce just to claim ownership of a large portion of a man's properties. They have gone as far as plotting against their men to for reasons known to them. If some wives can do all of that, this that op has told us is not shocking to me. If the husband of these said woman has been very open to her about all his bitcoin dealings, hiding nothing at all from her except the location of the seedphrase, she would strike once she has access to the seedphrase. It may have taken her a very long time to plan and achieve this her aim.

[pawanjain]

I don't blame the man but his ex-wife who stole his password in their house. He trusted his wife but she betrayed him since she didn't not love him and have plans to steal from him which was why she went this far. I think that our homes should be the safest place to hide our seed phrase and valueable documents regardless whether, CCTV is on or not.

Those that are not yet married should be careful with the kind of woman you bring into your life as your wife because she might be a thieve unknowingly to you.

This is exactly what I have been thinking after reading the post. How could a person go to such an extent and that too a life partner ?
Out of all the people, the man would have trusted his wife but it was the same person who betrayed him.
This shows how cruel the world can be and how the closest person can stab us in the back.
Better not to disclose our funds to anyone at all.

[coupable]

It means the wife has the knowledge of bitcoin or basic tech about how to operate and use a wallet. If the evidence and proof is solid, simply it's thief and should be sued and recover full amount or at least of what remained plus all the damage, emotional, etc.

The proofs are solid in favor of the husband narrative. But since the case is about an incident happened since about three years ago, why it has appear to mainstream just recently.
I didn't read the 4 full pages discussions in this thread, so I am asking if someone asked about the possibility of none of the two parties is the real owner of the bitcoin since there is no clear mention about its source, and just one thief stolen the seed from another thief or they were already theif partners. This is just an assumption logic based.

[abaeze]

We often blame scammers but don't want to be victims of scams that happen because of our own mistakes. Such incidents can happen in reality, it's absolutely true. People usually blame malware or hacking, but real-world or physical  security often becomes a major risk. Bitcoin is technically very secure but due to our own mistakes we are making this asset unsafe, everyone should be careful.This is a big example of how a small mistake can lead to a lot of danger. It is easy to blame others for your mistakes, but once your assets are lost due to a mistake, they cannot be recovered. So people should be aware of this.