Three teenagers were accused of kidnapping a man in a crosshair after returning from a cryptographic event in Las Vegas, after which he led him an hour outside the city and robbed him of $ 4 million in cryptocurrencies and non -frunt tokens.
According to the police, the incident took place in November last year. The victim ended the organization of an event related to Krypto in the center of Las Vegas, and when he returned home, the suspects forced him to the vehicle and entered a distant desert zone away from the city hour away.
There they forced him to transfer passwords to his accounts, According to To the report of May 10 with Las Vegas Local News Outlet 8 News Now.
The man was allegedly ordered to follow the demands of teenagers if he wanted to “live to see the next day”, and because “they also had his dad and would kill him”, according to the report.
It is also claimed that the fourth person could communicate with three newborn men through a telephone conversation during an incident that the victim could hear through the speakerphone.
After exhausting the account of $ 4 million in cryptography and NFTS, the victim reportedly passed five miles back through the desert to reach a gas station, where he could call his friend for support.
Two 16-year-olds from Florida are in the face of allegations, including robbery, kidnapping and extortion in connection with the incident. Prosecutors say that the third teenager allegedly involved in the plot left the country.
One of the newborn men stand behind bars with a deposit set at $ 4 million, and the other was spent in home detention with electronic monitoring. Preliminary interrogation is scheduled for June, and both teenagers are judged as adults.
Digital Asset Advyer Sasha Hodder he said In the post of May 10, X in this matter illustrates how “cryptographic theft is evolving. It is no longer only about social engineering or SIM turns.”
Uptick in Thieves aimed at the offline cryptographic industry
Participants of the cryptocurrency industry are increasingly becoming the target of kidnapping and extortion. In the last case of May 3, the crypt father of the entrepreneur was released by the police in Paris in France, after a few days of taking place in connection with the kidnapping department of 7 million euros (7.8 million dollars).
In February, the British cryptographic broker supposedly jumped 30 feet from the balcony to escape from the kidnappers who threatened torture and killing it if he did not give over 30,000 euros (30,917 USD) of cryptography.
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Meanwhile, Jameson Lopp, Cypherpunk and co -founder of Casa, created list In GitHub, recordings of dozens of bans on offline cryptography around the world.
The first comes from 2014, when someone allegedly tried to force computer science and cryptographer Hal Finney from 1000 Bitcoins (BTC) worth USD 400,000.
So far this year there have been 21 incidents with a personal cryptographic attack, according to the LOPP list. In 2024 there were 28 incidents, while in 2023 it was 17 in 2023 and 32.
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