Three teenagers were accused
According to the police, the incident occurred in November last November. The victim had accomplished a crypto -related event in downtown Las Vegas. When he returned home, the suspects forced him to a vehicle and drove him to a distant desert area that was an hour away from the town.
There they forced him handy over passwords to his accounts, in accordance with a report on May tenth by Las Vegas Local News Outlet 8 News now.
The man was supposedly said that he should meet the teenagers of the teenagers if he desired to “see one other day”, and since, in accordance with the report, they’d also “have his father and kill him”.
It can be said that a fourth person communicated with the three young men in the course of the incident with the three young men who could hear the victim through a loudspeaker listener.
After the victim had triggered his accounts in Krypto and NFTS of 4 million US dollars, it was purported to be five miles through the desert to achieve a petroleum station where he could call a friend to get help.
Two 16-year-olds from Florida are charged with the incident, including robbery, kidnapping and extortion. A 3rd teenager who’s purported to be involved within the conspiracy has left the country, say the prosecutors.
One of the young men stands behind bars with a deposit of 4 million US dollars, while the opposite was released under house arrest with electronic surveillance. A preliminary hearing is planned for June, with each teenagers being on trial as adults.
Sasha Hodder Sasha Hodder said in a post on May 10 that this case shows how “crypto theft is developing. It will not be only a social engineering or Sim -Swaps”.
Source: Sasha Hodder
The thieves' rise to align themselves against the crypto industry
The participants within the crypto industry are increasingly becoming destinations for kidnapping and extortion. In a case on May 3, the daddy of a crypto entrepreneur was freed by the police in Paris, France, after he was held for several days in reference to a kidnapping property of seven million euros (7.8 million dollars).
In February, a British crypto broker reported 30 feet from a balcony to flee kidnappers that threatened to torture and kill him if he didn’t hand over over 30,000 euros ($ 30,917).
In the meantime, Jameson Lopp, a Cypherpunk and co-founder of the Self-Bustodial company CASA, has created an inventory in Github recordings of dozens of offline crypto robberies all over the world.
The first dates from 2014 when someone supposedly tried to blackmail computer scientists and cryptograph HAL Finney of 1,000 Bitcoin (BTC) price $ 400,000.
According to the Lopp list, there have been 21 incidents of personally crypto-related robberies this 12 months. In 2024 there have been 28 incidents, while in 2023 1723 and 32 in 2021.
