加密货币暴力抢劫案件激增：针对投资者的六起袭击事件

来源: Cointelegraph 原文: 《 加密货币暴力抢劫案件激增：针对投资者的六起袭击事件 》

随着加密货币的普及和价值攀升，一些犯罪分子开始采取暴力手段从知名加密货币持有者那里窃取资金。

詹姆森·洛普（Jameson Lopp）在GitHub上的资料库记录显示，仅2025年就发生了22起针对加密货币持有者的"$5扳手"袭击事件。这一称号源于犯罪分子使用的粗暴暴力手段，迫使加密货币持有者交出他们的数字资产。

在多数情况下，地方执法部门能够在受害者受伤和资金损失前及时干预。然而，暴力且成功的袭击事件呈现上升趋势，部分事件已造成永久性伤害甚至死亡。

最近在法国巴黎发生的一起事件促使法国内政部召开专题会议，以应对这一日益严峻的趋势。以下是今年发生的七起最具影响力的袭击事件。

加密货币钱包Ledger的创始人David Balland及其妻子Amandine Balland于1月21日从家中被绑架。这对夫妇被强行带上一辆汽车，随后被分别关押在不同地点。

巴黎检察官Laure Beccuau表示，绑架者联系了Ledger的一名高管，要求支付大量加密货币作为赎金。据报道，犯罪分子对Balland的手实施了残忍伤害，并向Ledger发送照片以施加压力。

在Ledger向当局报警后，约230名警官参与了搜救行动。警方成功于1月22日在Châteauroux（位于其住所西南方向30英里处）找到并解救了David。次日，通过审讯被捕嫌疑人并分析电话记录，警方在Étampes（位于Vierzon北部80英里处）成功解救了Amandine。

少量赎金已支付。Beccuau表示这些资金被冻结并追踪，最终导致九名男子和一名女子被逮捕。

On Jan. 20, Korean Bitcoin (BTC) trader Taehwa Kim met with a man under the alias “JC” in Makati City, Philippines who was supposedly interested in buying his Lamborghini. After a test drive, they stopped at a spa, supposedly to meet with JC’s lawyer. Three other men forced Kim into another vehicle and bound his hands

Kim was kept for three days. Then, the attackers abandoned him some 50 kilometers away, his hands still tied, where police officers found him.

The perpetrators didn’t manage to get his crypto, but they stole his car, his Rolex watch, his wallet and the keys to his house

In November 2024, Kick streamer and cosplayer Kaitlyn Siragusa, known professionally as “Amouranth,” posted a screenshot on X of her crypto wallet. It held some $20 million in Bitcoin (BTC) and $80,000 in Ether (ETH)

Months later, on March 2, 2025, three armed assailants allegedly broke into her home with the intent of stealing her cryptocurrency. She posted during the incident on X, stating, “I’m being too robbed at gunpont. I believe I shot one of them they wanted crypto is what they were yelling they pulled me out of bed.”

Siragusa claimed that the assailants physically assaulted her before she discharged a weapon, after which they fled the scene. She said that police were testing blood left by suspects at the scene and posted video of the incident on her X profile

On March 29, police in São Paulo arrested a retired military police officer in connection with the week-long kidnapping of a Spanish businessman

Speaking to authorities, the businessman said he was approached by two men dressed in fake civil police uniforms and forced into a truck. Upon reaching a secluded location on the outskirts of the city, the assailants held him and demanded $50 million in cryptocurrency.

Local media said the kidnappers drugged their victim with sleeping pills, but he was still able to escape when one of them went to the bathroom. After finding a filling station, he tipped off police, who seized one of the suspects as well as a pistol and ammunition

The daughter and grandson of Pierre Noizat, co-founder and CEO of French crypto exchange Paymium, narrowly escaped a kidnapping attempt in Paris when passersby intervened.

Three masked attackers tried to force Noizat’s daughter and her son into a van while they were taking a walk in Paris on May 13

En plein Paris, un homme a été violenté par des individus cagoulés, habillés tout en noir. Ils tentaient de l'enlever. Un homme a surgi, extincteur à la main, pour les faire fuir. → pic.twitter.com/9f4r2Gi7ho

Noizat’s daughter managed to disarm an attacker, after which a passing crowd intervened. The assailants fled in a van, which was later found abandoned nearby. The victims sustained injuries and were evacuated to a local hospital.

Local media reported that the Brigade for the Suppression of Banditry, a special police unit of the French Ministry of the Interior, was investigating the incident

Kidnappers in Paris, France abducted the father of a French cryptocurrency entrepreneur on May 4

The attackers took him to Essonne, 35 miles away from the Paris street where they grabbed him, and cut off his finger. They made a video and sent it to his son, demanding 5 million euros in crypto. The victim’s son subsequently contacted police

The victim was held for two days before French police were able to find and rescue him. According to CNN, five people were arrested in connection with the kidnapping

Authorities have noted the striking similarities of the case to that of Balland, whose attackers also took him several miles from the city and mutilated his hand

“Obviously, there’s at least a link in the modus operandi. Now, whether it’s the same team or not is for the investigators to say,” said internal security expert Guillaume Farde.

The rise in recent attacks has shaken the crypto industry. Ben Davis, co-founder and CEO at blockchain insurance firm Native, told Cointelegraph, “We used to see crypto wrench attacks predominantly happening when executives were abroad or traveling. However, high-profile cases like the kidnapping of Ledger’s co-founder show that attackers are now targeting individuals in their own homes, with more planning and precision than ever before.”

Authorities are responding to concerns as well. On May 16, the French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau met with cryptocurrency professionals to address the recent uptick in violent crime against industry figures

For the foreseeable future, personal security, not just asset security, will be a defining theme of the crypto industry

Additional reporting by Cath Jenkin