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Severed Fingers and 'Wrench Attacks' Rattle the Crypto Elite

by spenvo on 5/18/25, 10:55 PM with 35 comments

  • by WarOnPrivacy on 5/18/25, 11:13 PM

  • by TheKidCoder on 5/18/25, 11:10 PM

    This is one of those stories that has the elements of a pessimistic view of cryptocurrency and it’s pitfalls but by the end of it makes you stop and think to yourself “Bad people want money, they will do horrible things to get it, that has always been true.”

    Flashing your wealth on social media or being a high profile executive is dangerous, crypto-ties or not.

  • by neilv on 5/19/25, 12:45 AM

    > Those concerns intensified this week with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase disclosing that as many as 97,000 customers have had their personal information stolen, including addresses and balance snapshots.

    I'm not a professional journalist, but let me give it a shot:

    "Those concerns intensified this week, with the disclosure that criminals stole from cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase the personal information of as many as 97,000 customers, including cryptocurrency balances and physical addresses."

  • by lsllc on 5/18/25, 11:16 PM

    Another example of Randall Munroe's prescience:

    https://xkcd.com/538/

    Although this is the one I'm really worried about:

    https://www.xkcd.com/2203/

  • by OutOfHere on 5/18/25, 11:30 PM

    Just don't flaunt your crypto, and don't have any visible crypto apps or widgets on your phone either. Whether you are rich or poor, don't look particularly rich. Also, if you hold an ETF like IBIT, that's traditional.