| December 29, 2014 | Hal Finney | Santa Barbara, California, United States | Bitcoin developer SWATted after months of harrassment & extortion (original link) |
| January 3, 2015 | Amanda McCollum | Atlanta, Georgia, United States | BTM thieves strike smoke shop, fire gun (original link) |
| January 22, 2015 | Martin Wismeijer | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Thieves steal 2 bitcoin ATMs (original link) |
| February, 2015 | Dean Katz | New York, New York, United States | Bitcoin trader robbed of $12,000 at gunpoint (original link) |
| May 27, 2015 | Dwayne Richards | New York, New York, United States | Firefighter kidnapped, robbed of $1,100, & stabbed by crypto thieves (original link) |
| November 16, 2015 | Robert Nederhoed | Delft, Netherlands | Thieves steal bitcoin ATM containing 2,000 EUR (original link) |
| July 11, 2016 | Tadas Kasputis | Kaunas, Lithuania | Cryptocurrency executive kidnapped at car wash (original link) |
| July 25, 2016 | Steve Manos | West Palm Beach, Florida, United States | Bitcoin trader robbed of $28,000 at gunpoint (original link) |
| August 14, 2016 | Multiple | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Police arrest teens in string of bitcoin-related robberies (original link) |
| November 6, 2016 | Tivoli Brasserie | Oudenbosch, Netherlands | Dutch Bitcoin ATM Owner Laughs at Thieves Who Took His Machine (original link) |
| February 16, 2017 | Josoj | London, England | Description of robbery during Localbitcoins trade with Bitcoin Uncensored interview and the robber's side of the story. |
| February 26, 2017 | Rocelo Lopes' wife | Florianopolis, Brazil | Wife of crypto exchange owner kidnapped and ransomed (original link) |
| March 14, 2017 | 3 Indian Bitcoin traders | Dubai, UAE | 3 Emiratis pose as cops, kidnap victims and rob them of 25 BTC (original link) |
| June 17, 2017 | Miyuki Noda | Gifu, Japan | Woman strangled, attacker takes 100,000 yen worth of BTC (original link) |
| September 4, 2017 | Alexey Sherstne | Kyiv, Ukraine | Man tortured for $50k in Bitcoins (original link) |
| October 16, 2017 | Jameson Lopp | Durham, North Carolina, United States | Bitcoin developer swatted & extorted (original link) |
| October, 2017 | Multiple | Toulouse, France | 4 bitcoin traders robbed at gunpoint (original link) |
| October, 2017 | Multiple | Los Angeles, California, United States | "Discount Bitcoin Bandits" committed 5 robberies at gunpoint (original link) |
| November 4, 2017 | Unidentified | New York, New York, United States | Man robbed of $1.8M of ETH (original link) |
| November 15, 2017 | Unidentified | Istanbul, Turkey | Gang stole $2.83M in BTC from businessman (original link) |
| December, 2017 | Unidentified | Reykjavik, Iceland | 600 Bitcoin ASICs stolen (original link) and Follow-up Story (original link) |
| December 26, 2017 | Pavel Lerner | Kyiv, Ukraine | Bitcoin exchange owner kidnapped & ransomed (original link) |
| ?, 2018 | "T.W." | Los Angeles, California, United States | Home invasion by FBI impersonator who demanded laptop passwords to access cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| January 3, 2018 | "Dallas" | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States | Convicted felon accused of firing gun inside downtown Milwaukee condo during Bitcoin sale (original link) |
| January 14, 2018 | Pavel Nyashin | Leningrad Oblast, Russia | Blogger Who Boasted About Crypto Wealth Beaten and Robbed For $425k (original link) |
| January 15, 2018 | Maxsim Latsoka & Anna Nikurina | Phuket, Thailand | Russian gang steals 100,000 Euros in BTC from young Russian couple (original link) |
| January 18, 2018 | ____ Lee | North Point, Hong Kong | Bitcoin trader lured to bogus meeting and robbed of HK$1.4M (original link) |
| January 23, 2018 | Canadian Bitcoins | Ottawa, Canada | Failed armed robbery attempt of Canadian bitcoin exchange (original link) |
| January 27, 2018 | Danny Aston & Amy Jay | Moulsford, Oxfordshire, England | Armed home invasion of Bitcoin trading firm owner (original link) |
| January 29, 2018 | Unidentified | Cumming, Georgia, United States | Five men arrested for planning armed home invasion of bitcoin owner (original link) |
| January 2018 | Unidentified | Odessa, Ukraine | Several men pose as bitcoin sellers, beat and rob buyer of 1.5 Million UAH ($57,000 USD (original link) |
| February 9, 2018 | Sailesh Bhatt | Amreli, India | Police Officers Beat, Extorted 200 BTC from Businessman (original link) |
| February 21, 2018 | ____ Tai | Taichung, Taiwan | Four men assault bitcoin seller & transfer 18 BTC (original link) |
| February 19, 2018 | Unidentified | Moscow, Russia | Crypto investor has face mutilated, robbed of $1M in BTC (original link) |
| February 23, 2018 | Yury Mayorov | Moscow, Russia | Crypto Developer Beaten, Robbed Of 300 BTC (original link) |
| March 2018 | Undisclosed woman | Killingly, Connecticut, United States | 2 women invaded home of another woman who had opened a "Bitcoin account" in the name of one of the attackers and used it to steal her money. (original link) |
| March 2018 | Unidentified Miner | Kyiv, Ukraine | Miner kidnapped, extorted for $50,000. Kidnappers caught 8 months later. (original link) |
| March 22, 2018 | Multiple gas stations | Irving & Mesquite, Texas, United States | Robbers douse clerks with pepper spray, steal from Bitcoin ATMs in Irving and Mesquite (original link) |
| April 8, 2018 | Pang Joon Hau | Singapore | Man seeking to buy BTC robbed of $365,000 (original link) |
| April 11, 2018 | Ryan Rice | Miami, Florida, United States | Bitcoin buyer shoots robber in self defense (original link) |
| April 25, 2018 | 2 unidentified Asian brothers | Dubai, UAE | Gang of 10 robbed two brothers of AED 7m ($1.9m) in cash who were looking to buy Bitcoin (original link) |
| June 6, 2018 | Unidentified 22-year-old | Milan, Italy | Robbers attempt bitcoin purchase with counterfeit money, beat victims and fire gun, take 50,000 euros (original link) |
| June 13, 2018 | "Synth" | China | Home invasion of Skycoin architect resulted in theft of 18.88 BTC and 6,466 SKY (original link) |
| June 19, 2018 | Unidentified | Wels, Austria | $250,000 in cryptocurrency taken by robbers posing as postmen (original link) |
| July 6, 2018 | Austin Nedved | Northborough, Massachussetts, United States | Armed home invasion of Localbitcoins trader (original link), forum post by victim |
| September 7, 2018 | Nicholas Truglia | New York, New York, United States | Friends accused of torturing pal to steal his cryptocurrency (original link) |
| November ?, 2018 | Kieran Hamilton | Manchester, England | Crypto trader stabbed, robbed by home invaders (original link) |
| November 16, 2018 | Andrew ______ | Lanseria, South Africa | Bitcoin trader drugged, beaten, and tortured before transferring BTC to attackers (original link) |
| February 10, 2019 | Tjeerd H. | Drouwenerveen, Netherlands | Bitcoin trader tortured with drill in front of daughter. (original link) |
| March 12, 2019 | Costcutters | Far Cotton, Northampton, England | Bitcoin machine stolen during robbery (original link) |
| March 19, 2019 | Shahid Naseer | Lahore, Pakistan | IT professor kidnapped by his student and police, his family paid 9 BTC ransom. (original link) |
| May 14, 2019 | Undisclosed | Oslo, Norway | Bitcoin millionaire escapes armed home invader by jumping off balcony (original link) |
| June 30, 2019 | Luftan Shaikh, Mohammad Shazad, Malang Shah | Jaipur, Rajasthan, India | Criminal Gang Abducts & Tortures Cryptocurrency Traders, Demands 80 BTC Ransom (original link) |
| July 15, 2019 | Bitcoin Exchange | Sparkhill, Birmingham, England | Masked raiders hold up Bitcoin Exchange in front of dozens of witnesses (original link) |
| July 26, 2019 | Unidentified | Wels, Austria | Man raided in office (en) (original link) |
| August 26, 2019 | Abdul Shakoor | Dehradun, India | Kingpin of Kerala bitcoin scam murdered in Dehradun (original link) |
| November 19, 2019 | Simply Delicious Food Market | Vernon, British Columbia, Canada | Thieves break into BTM (original link) |
| January ?, 2020 | Iroro Wisdom Ovie | Abraka, Nigeria | Man shot & killed by home invaders seeking $10,000 in bitcoin (original link) |
| January ?, 2020 | 17 y/o trader | Preston, Lancashire, England | Trader lured to apartment, kidnapped, driven around in car trunk. (original link) |
| January 8, 2020 | Mark Cheng Jin Quan | Bangkok, Thailand | Blockchain advisor kidnapped, held at gunpoint, extorted for $60,000 in bitcoin (original link) |
| January 21, 2020 | Mayfair Quick Mart | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | 2 men break into BTM, steal cash box (original link) |
| February 10, 2020 | Unidentified couple | Carlisle, England | Home invaders force victims to create crypto exchange accounts (original link) |
| March 18, 2020 | Unidentified siblings | Blantyre, Scotland | Home invader beats woman with Toblerone, forces victim to transfer $200,000 of BTC (original link) |
| May 17, 2020 | Le Duc Nguyen | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | HCMC cops charged with $1.6 mln bitcoin robbery. Follow-up article here. (original link) |
| May 19, 2020 | Exxon Gas Station | East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States | 2 subjects pry open BTM in broad daylight |
| May 23, 2020 | Ellis Pinsky | Irvinton, New York, United States | 2 men commit home invasion of hacker, seeking tens of millions of dollars in bitcoin (original link) |
| September, 2020 | Male Freshman | Kent, England | Student robbed of bitcoin at knifepoint during first week at university. (original link) |
| October 1, 2020 | Unidentified | Kyiv, Ukraine | Police kidnap a businessman, torture him, and force his wife to send them 7 bitcoin. (original link) |
| October 7, 2020 | Mike's Produce | Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada | Botched Bitcoin theft destroys deli (original link) |
| October 22, 2020 | Undisclosed | Riga, Latvia | Man arrested for planning kidnapping and killing owners of cryptocurrencies (original link) |
| December ?, 2020 | Undisclosed | Dubai, UAE | 4 Ukrainian men attack Bitcoin buyer with deoderant (original link) |
| December 24, 2020 | Undisclosed | Ternopil, Ukraine | Man kidnapped and tortured for $800k (original link) |
| Unknown, 2021 | Dillon Attard | Sliema, Malta | Victim describes his disbelief as $700,000 stolen in front of him (original link) |
| January 5, 2021 | 37 y/o man | Chai Wan, Hong Kong | Robbers take US$387,000 in cash, 15BTC from man after in-person trade (original link) |
| January 18, 2021 | Unidentified Woman | Kwun Tong, Hong Kong | Gang snatches HK$3.5 million from trader at knifepoint (original link) |
| January 23, 2021 | Physical Exchange Employees | Olsztyn, Poland | Two employees shot at physical Bitcoin exchange FlyingAtom (original link) |
| February 4, 2021 | Married Couple | Stockholm, Sweden | Armed robbers invade home and force owners to hand over 1M+ SEK in BTC (original link) |
| February ?, 2021 | Swiss & German | Gujranwala, Pakistan | Armed robbers take $93k in BTC at gunpoint (original link) |
| March 10, 2021 | Bank director | Recife, Brazil | Man kidnapped by a gang , tied up, and had two teeth knocked out. He was released after he instructed his partner to transfer 4.78 BTC to the attackers. (original link) |
| March 16, 2021 | 29 y/o Berlin man | Munich, Germany | Robbers steal bitcoin worth almost 100,000 Euros (original link) |
| March 18, 2021 | "F.T." | Mendoza, Argentina | Armed robbers steal iPhone, $5k at gunpoint (original link) |
| April 8, 2021 | 30 year old miner | Zaporizhya, Ukraine | Mining farm owner shoots at looters (original link) |
| April 13, 2021 | Undisclosed | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Armed men force their way into Canyon Meadows home, steal cryptocurrency keys (original link) |
| May, 2021 | 14 y/o boy | Bradford, Yorkshire, England | Teen bitcoin trader kidnapped & ransomed (original link) |
| May, 2021 | ___ Ghershony | Bethesda, Maryland, United States | Son drugs father, steals $400K in BTC (original link) |
| June 11, 2021 | 40 y/o man | Gyeonggi Province, South Korea | Woman drugs man she met on chat app, steals $87K from his phone. (original link) |
| June 14, 2021 | 22 y/o man | Kwun Tong, Hong Kong | Trader temporarily blinded, HK$2 million stolen (original link) |
| June 24, 2021 | 39 y/o man | Leeuwarden, Netherlands | 3 men posing as service technicians beat password out of Bitcoin owner (original link) |
| July, 2021 | Unidentified man | Omsk, Russia | 3 men kidnap and extort over $1M in crypto from victim (original link) |
| July 1, 2021 | Unidentified man | Colombia | Bitcoin holder drugged and robbed by Tinder date (original link) |
| July 14, 2021 | Morakinyo Peter & Yusuf Dayo | Lagos, Nigeria | Law Enforcement Officers rob 2 men of $50K USD in bitcoin at gunpoint (original link) |
| July 28, 2021 | 39 y/o man | Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong | Trader robbed of HK$3 million at knifepoint (original link) |
| August ?, 2021 | 3 women | Dubai, UAE | 4 Africans rob three women of $100,000 in a fake Bitcoin deal (original link) |
| August 8, 2021 | Wesley Pessano Santarem | Sao Pedro da Aldeia, Brazil | Crypto Trader's Murder Blamed On Social Media Bragging (original link) |
| August 18, 2021 | Simon Arthuis | Plancher-Bas, France | Computer engineering student drugged, tortured, and killed by 5 men for €200,000 in cryptocurrency (original link) |
| September ?, 2021 | Unidentified 31 y/o | Abkhazia | Thieves break into garage, steal 20 mining servers worth $10,000. (original link) |
| September 9, 2021 | Mark Geor | Westmere, New Zealand | Safe containing $4M of cryptocurrency ripped from house (original link) |
| October, 2021 | Miner | Tomsk, Russia | Armed Robbers attack Miner at his Home, Steal 86 BTC (original link) |
| October 7, 2021 | Liquor Store | South Bay, California, United States | Thieves Break Into Liquor Store to Steal Bitcoin ATM (original link) |
| October 20, 2021 | Astamur Ardzibna | Abkhazia | Man Shot Dead in Hail of Gunfire Over Crypto Mining Rigs (original link) |
| November 2, 2021 | Zaryn Dentzel | Madrid, Spain | Home invaders torture social media founder, take tens of millions of euros in bitcoin (original link) |
| November 6, 2021 | 39 y/o trader | Hong Kong | Crypto trader kidnapped by Triad gang, beaten with hammers (original link) |
| November 12, 2021 | GBTC Crypto Exchange | Barcelona, Spain | Thieves rip bitcoin ATM from crypto store (original link) |
| November 21, 2021 | "E.Z." | Los Angeles, California, United States | Attempted robbery & kidnapping at gunpoint by business associate (original link) |
| December ?, 2021 | Unidentified Family | Sukhumi, Abkhazia | 2 masked men break into home, hold family at gunpoint before escaping with three servers and $2,040 in cash. (original link) |
| December 11, 2021 | Camilla Guadagnuolo & Principe Nerini | Bali, Indonesia | Robbers take $400K in cash & bitcoin at knifepoint (original link) |
| December 15, 2021 | Vincent Everts | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Armed home invaders threaten TV personality during livestream (original link) |
| December 27, 2021 | 2 unidentified males | Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada | 11 Inmates take 2 inmates hostage, force them to transfer cryptocurrency (original link) |
| Multiple, 2022 | Multiple | Ufa, Russia | Traffic officer jailed for robbing 20 million rubles in BTC from multiple detainees (original link) |
| January 16, 2022 | Gas Station | Memphis, Tennessee, United States | Suspects smash gas station with truck, steal Bitcoin ATM (original link) |
| January 21, 2022 | 34 y/o teacher | Hoboken, Belgium | 3 men invade home, fail to force owner to hand over 3M Euros of BTC (original link) |
| January 26, 2022 | Owen Simonin | France | Fake insurance adjustor attempts armed home invasion, gets pushed and locked out by victim. (original link) Victim later recorded a video detailing the ordeal. |
| February, 2022 | John Forsyth | Missouri, United States | Crypto founder kidnapped, zip-tied, threatened to be thrown off bridge. (original link) |
| February 2, 2022 | Vinay Naik | Pune, India | Pune: 8 including cop arrested for kidnapping man to extort Bitcoin worth Rs 300 crore ($50 million USD) (original link) |
| February 3, 2022 | Vinay Jain | Surat, India | Auto parts businessman brings suitcase full of $260K worth of cash to do an in-person crypto trade, gets beaten and robbed by 8 men. (original link) |
| February 3, 2022 | Ilya Basin | Brooklyn, New York, United States | Crypto consultant hog-tied, beaten during home invasion. (original link) |
| March, 2022 | bitcoin trader | Dubai, UAE | 4 men invade home, tie up man, steal $450K from safe. (original link) |
| March 2, 2022 | Unidentified man | Miami, Florida, United States | Businessman ambushed by armed robber, has $1M watch & crypto wallet taken. (original link) |
| March 4, 2022 | Electronics Dealer | Pune, India | Woman cop suspended for bid to extort crypto from trader (original link) |
| March 16, 2022 | Pierrick Jamaux | New York, New York, United States | Crypto expert shot 5 times by robber seeking Richard Mille watch. (original link) |
| March 30, 2022 | "E.Z." | Los Angeles, California, United States | Attempted home invasion by 3 armed men; victim fired gun at attackers, who fled. (original link) |
| April, 2022 | Unidentified trader | Dubai, UAE | 9 robbers invaded the office of a bitcoin trader and took over $1,000,000 in cash. (original link) |
| April 21, 2022 | Unidentified couple | Norrköping, Sweden | Couple tied up and beaten, forced to transfer cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| May, 2022 | 4 victims | London, England | Multiple incidents of crypto muggings around London. (original link) |
| May, 2022 | Unidentified man | Dubai, UAE | Crypto expert assaulted & robbed by investors for losing money. (original link) |
| May 20, 2022 | Factory Owner | Klang, Malaysia | 12 men rob aluminum factory, steal 180 Bitcoin ASICs. (original link) |
| June, 2022 | Undisclosed | Osaka, Japan | Son of Mitsubishi Electric CEO + 7 men kidnap, torture gym member for crypto assets. (original link) |
| July, 2022 | Asian Investor | Dubai, UAE | Man suffers home invasion, loses ~$50,000 after attempting a face-to-face cash trade to buy bitcoin. (original link) |
| July, 2022 | Vkusvill Supermarket | Kuchino, Russia | 4 armed mask men rob warehouse, steal 100 GPUs. (original link) |
| August 6, 2022 | 30 y/o broker | Manerba, Italy | 3 men follow a man home, hold him at knifepoint for BTC. (original link) |
| August 7, 2022 | Arjun Bhargav | Vrindavan Yojana, India | 3 men trick, abduct, torture realtor for 8 BTC. (original link) |
| September, 2022 | Middle Aged Couple | Richmond, British Columbia, Canada | Multiple suspects posing as police invade home, tie up residents, steal $10M in crypto. (original link) |
| September 6, 2022 | 19 y/o hacker | Lincolnshire, England | 3 men, 1 posing as a cop, arrested while attempting home invasion. (original link) |
| September 12, 2022 | 19 y/o man | Winnipeg, Canada | Man held at gunpoint, assaulted and tied up during Bitcoin trade. (original link) |
| September 12, 2022 | Unidentified couple | Delray Beach, Florida, United States | Armed gang invades home, takes jewelry, electronics, cash. Tried but failed to drain Gemini account. (original link) |
| September 15, 2022 | Russian Couple | Koh Samui, Thailand | Russian couple extorted by gang of foreign men at coffee shop. (original link) |
| September 15, 2022 | Unidentified young man | Homestead, Florida, United States | Armed gang invades home, takes jewelry, electronics. Kidnapped & tortured victim, failed to find his bitcoin. (original link) |
| November 1, 2022 | Female "A.T." | Barrie, Ontario, Canada | A woman was kidnapped, tied to a chair, stripped naked, hit in the legs with a hammer, and burned while attackers demanded $1 million in bitcoin. She escaped and the attackers were caught. (original link) |
| December, 2022 | Aiden Pleterski | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | "Crypto king" abducted, tortured, and beaten for days as his kidnappers sought millions in ransom (original link) |
| December 1, 2022 | Russian Businessman | Moscow, Russia | Man kidnapped from his Bentley by 4 men, forced to give access to bitcoin wallet. (original link) |
| December 3, 2022 | Unidentified man | Lelystad, Netherlands | Man responds to ad to sell his bitcoin, is attacked by several men & forced to transfer 30K EUR worth of BTC & ETH. (original link) |
| December 11, 2022 | 2 Russians | Phuket, Thailand | 2 men who work on a cryptocurrency were kidnapped and robbed. (original link) |
| December 12, 2022 | Chinese businessman | Philippines | Chinese businessman kidnapped and held for six days in the Philippines (original link) |
| December 22, 2022 | Unidentified man | Little Elm, Texas, United States | Armed gang invades home, torture victims for 3 hours, take jewelry, fail to find hardware wallet with $1.4m. (original link) |
| Early January, 2023 | Karl Johnson | Salford, England | Man knocks on door, threatens to assault victim, leaves after he sends some cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| January 14, 2023 | Crypto Company | Barcelona, Spain | 5 men stormed into a company's office armed with tasers and zip ties. (original link) |
| Late January, 2023 | Karl Johnson | Salford, England | 2 men knock on door, threaten victim with knife, leave after he sends cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| February, 2023 | Saudi Royal | Melbourne, Australia | TikTok influencer lures Saudi royal to her home where he was imprisoned until he handed over $40K in BTC. (original link) |
| February 25, 2023 | Yuri Boytsov | Bali, Indonesia | 4 men invade crypto blogger's home, beat him until he transfers $284,000 in BTC. (original link) |
| February 27, 2023 | German man | Medellin, Colombia | 20 year old Venezuelan woman drugs and robs man of 1 BTC. (original link) |
| March 9, 2023 | Peter Vuong | Sydney, Australia | Gang kidnaps boyfriend of crypto trader's relative, demands $5M ransom while torturing him for 6 days. (original link) |
| March 20, 2023 | Virendra Malik | Noida, India | Couple stages robbery to steal bitcoin from their friend, but he doesn't comply. (original link) |
| March 29, 2023 | 48 y/o woman | Seoul, South Korea | 4 men kidnap woman, steal crypto, murder her. (original link) |
| April, 2023 | Unidentified Woman | Dubai, UAE | Driver & 3 friends lured an investor into a fake deal, robbed, electrocuted, stripped naked, and took blackmail videos. (original link) |
| April 12, 2023 | 76 y/o couple | Durham, North Carolina, United States | 2 men posing as construction workers invade home, force transfer of $250K in crypto. (original link) |
| May 3, 2023 | Unidentified man | Benalmádena, Spain | 3 men kidnap crypto businessman, demand €1 million ransom. He was rescued by police. (original link) |
| May 26, 2023 | Smoke Shop | Houston, Texas, United States | 7 men arrested after ramming store with stolen truck in failed attempt to steal Bitcoin ATM. (original link) |
| June 2023 | Crypto Entrepreneur | Tel Aviv, Israel | Crypto entrepreneur robbed at gunpoint in his home in Tel Aviv (original link) |
| July 16, 2023 | Unknown Couple | Queens, New York, United States | Fake FBI agents in Porsche tase and tie up couple, steal Mercedes, $40K in cash, crypto (original link) |
| August 24, 2023 | Father of influencer TeufeurS | Cures, Sarthe, France | Man posing as Amazon delivery driver kidnapped 60-year-old father of Malta-based gaming influencer. Son paid €1.7M crypto ransom after receiving video of father bound with automatic weapon to head. Same criminal network later linked to the January 2025 Ledger co-founder kidnapping. (original link) |
| September 3, 2023 | Italian man | Phuket, Thailand | Russian MMA fighter & twin brother rob man of watches, seek Ledger wallet. (original link) |
| October, 2023 | Karl Johnson | Cardishead, England | Victim dragged into a flat, tied up, assaulted, locked in a cupboard all night until they received cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| October, 2023 | Karl Johnson | Salford, England | Days after previous attack, victim was kidnapped, had bag placed over head, released after sending cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| October 3, 2023 | Unidentified couple | Södertälje, Sweden | 4 masked robbers invaded home, tied up victims. (original link) |
| October 30, 2023 | Crypto Exchange | Tbilisi, Georgia | 6 men rob exchange office, take $900K USD in crypto. (original link) |
| November 6, 2023 | Middle-aged couple | Rönninge, Sweden | Couple tied up, beaten, and threatened with their own kitchen knives. (original link) |
| November 10, 2023 | Binance Client | Montenegro | Executives lured into fake business trip, kidnapped, forced to empty wallets of $12M USDT. (original link) |
| November 10, 2023 | 21 y/o man | Portland, Oregon, United States | 4 men fly from FL to OR, kidnap target from apartment, torture him until he revealed seed phrase. (original link) |
| November 30, 2023 | Karl Johnson | Salford, England | Victim was kidnapped from a friend's house, had bag placed over head, rescued by police after anonymous tip sent. (original link) |
| December 25, 2023 | 23 y/o miner | Izhevsk, Russia | Miner kidnapped from home, ransomed, rescued by police. |
| January 16, 2024 | 42 y/o man | Cluj, Romania | Restaurant owner kidnapped, doused in diesel, force fed alcohol, has finger cut off, until he transferred $200K USD in crypto. (original link) |
| January 31, 2024 | Belarusian couple (23 y/o man) | Phuket, Thailand | 5 "Russians" arrested in crypto abduction case (~USD 801,200) (original link) |
| February, 2024 | Unidentified | Winnsboro, Texas, United States | "GothFerrari" broke into victim's home and stole hardware wallet with ~100 BTC ($5M+); sentenced to 78 months under RICO conspiracy as part of $250M crypto theft ring. (original link) |
| March, 2024 | Uber Riders | Scottsdale, Arizona, United States | Fake Uber driver stole $200K+ in crypto from customers' Coinbase accounts by taking their phones. (original link) |
| March 10, 2024 | Young Couple | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Gang of 4 kidnaps couple and robs them of $25,000 in cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| March 15, 2024 | ___ Yevgini | Samui Island, Thailand | Gang of 6 Russians robs Russian man and wife at coffee shop for 1.8 million baht in BTC. |
| April 18, 2024 | 11 Traders | Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore | 4 men rob suspected Chinese crypto gambling ring of $3M USD. |
| April 27, 2024 | Undisclosed | Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada | Violent home invasion, suspect arrested at airport and eventually sentenced to 7 years. (original link) |
| May 5, 2024 | Quentin Cepeljac | London, England | Belgian barber brags about being successful crypto dealer to impress woman. She invites him to her luxury flat, which ends up being a wrench attack trap. Turned out he only had £6.71 in crypto. Attackers were quickly caught because they had rented an AirBNB for the trap. |
| June 17, 2024 | Ramesh Nair | London, England | 3 men armed with machetes invade home, force owner to transfer 1,000+ ETH. |
| June 21, 2024 | Kevin Mirshahi | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | A cryptocurrency influencer beaten to death in a torture room. (original link) |
| July 3, 2024 | 3 y/o boy | Tseung Kwan, Hong Kong | 2 women abduct toddler from mall, demand $660,000 USDT ransom. (original link) |
| July 10, 2024 | Undisclosed Man | Angers, France | 2 men invade home, threaten victim with knife & crowbar, demand 10,000 EUR. (original link) |
| July 11, 2024 | Chinese National | Cyberjaya, Malaysia | 18 people kidnap 2 victims, hold them for $1.2M ransom, get in shootout with police. (original link) |
| July 12, 2024 | British Crypto Trader | Bangkok, Thailand | 5 people tie up trader, assault, and rob him. (original link) |
| July 22, 2024 | 26 y/o Trading Coach | Bavdhan, India | Gang of 5 kidnaps trader and robs him at knifepoint of $18,000 in USDT (original link) |
| July 28, 2024 | 29 y/o Moroccan man | Kyiv, Ukraine | 4 men kidnap foreigner, rob, & murder him for 3 BTC. (original link) |
| July 29, 2024 | Tim Heath | Talinn, Estonia | Crypto billionaire attacked at rental home by men posing at painters, successfully fights them off and prevents kidnapping. (original link) |
| August 7, 2024 | 11 Israelis | Puntarenas, Costa Rica | 8 men, possibly police, overpower security guard, rob 11 tourists of 10+ BTC. (original link) |
| August 4, 2024 | Ke Jibao | Bangkok, Thailand | Gang of 4 Chinese nationals sneak into gated estate, commit armed home invasion, rob $2M USD of cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| August 15, 2024 | Undisclosed | Verdun, Quebec, Canada | 3 men invade home of crypto entrepreneur, torture him for hours until he transfers $15K. (original link) |
| August 25, 2024 | Radhika & Suchil Chetal | Danbury, Connecticut, United States | Parents of $243M heist thieves get carjacked & kidnapped in botched ransom plot. (original link) |
| August 29, 2024 | 19 y/o | Hougang, Singapore | Man seeks p2p trade of cash for USDT, punched by attackers, successfully escapes. (original link) |
| September 13, 2024 | Gabriel Di Noto | Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina | Accountant / crypto trader met a woman on Tinder, likely drugged, beaten by several men, forced to transfer funds, then murdered. (original link) |
| October, 2024 | 35 y/o man | Sofia, Bulgaria | 2 men posed as police, kidnapped victim, held a gun at his head for an hour and demanded 14 bitcoin from him. They failed to get any BTC, let the victim go, and were arrested 2 months later. |
| October 27, 2024 | 3 Family Members and a Nanny | Chicago, Illinois, United States | 6 men accused of kidnapping family from Chicago townhouse and forcing a transfer of $15 million in cryptocurrency (original link) |
| November, 2024 | Unidentified man | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | 3 teens kidnap man who hosted a crypto event. Drove him out to the desert, forced him to transfer $4 million at gunpoint. (original link) |
| November, 2024 | Unidentified woman | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Woman whose office was being renovated told construction worker about being a crypto investor; soon after a gang invaded her home and robbed her of over $50,000 USD in bitcoin along with other valuables. (original link) |
| November 4 & 8, 2024 | Forum Moderator | Victoriaville, Québec, Canada | Attempted kidnapping by 4 individuals who wanted to torture him to steal forum mod's bitcoins. (original link) |
| November 6, 2024 | Dean Skurka | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | WonderFi CEO kidnapped during rush hour, held until $1M ransom paid. (original link) |
| November 8, 2024 | Viacheslav Leibov | Phuket, Thailand | Tourist robbed by armed gang in friend's hotel room, forced to transfer $250K USDT. Robbers were captured a few days later. (original link) |
| November 20, 2024 | Gen Z Quant kid | United States | 13 year old's dog stolen after he rug pulled a token on pump.fun (original link) |
| November 22, 2024 | Undisclosed Man | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | Sex worker accused of kidnapping, stealing $300K in crypto from man she met at nightclub. (original link) |
| December 1, 2024 | Wang Shu | Chengdu, China | Software engineer lured by X account promising sex, ambushed at hotel by a gang that robbed him of 6 BTC. (original link) |
| December 3, 2024 | Family | North Richmond Hills, Texas, United States | 3 suspects posing as DoorDash delivery workers invade home, demand wallet. Wife calls 911 and they are quickly caught. (original link) |
| December 3, 2024 | Coinflip ATM | Melbourne, Australia | Crypto ATM stolen from shopping center. (original link) |
| December 15, 2024 | Igor Lermakov | Ungasan, Bali, Indonesia | A Russian gang of 4 men ambushed a Ukrainian on the road in Bali. The victim was kidnapped and beaten until he handed over $200,000 in cryptocurrency from his Binance account. The gang leader was arrested a month later trying to flee to Dubai. |
| December 19, 2024 | Benjamin Appiah Boateng | Laboma Beach, Ghana | Businessman lured to meeting, handcuffed, beaten, electrocuted for 15 hours before being rescued by police. (original link) |
| December 24, 2024 | Stéphane Winkel's Wife | Brussels, Belgium | Wife of crypto influencer who bragged about wealth was kidnapped by 3 men, police chase led to car crash. (original link) |
| December 24, 2024 | Undisclosed Man | Limassol, Cyprus | Christmas Eve Limassol heist as man gets away with 100 thousand Euros in cash (original link) |
| December 25, 2024 | Arsalan Malik | Karachi, Pakistan | Crypto trader in Karachi, Pakistan abducted by 5 men in a police van and forced to transfer $340,000 at gunpoint. (original link) |
| December 28, 2024 | 17 y/o | Los Angeles, California, United States | LAPD officer & man tied to Israeli mob commit home invasion, robs $350,000 in cryptocurrency. Victim tried to show them an empty wallet at first but they were not convinced and threatened to waterboard him. |
| January 1, 2025 | Influencer's father | Saint-Genis-Pouilly, France | Crypto influencer's father was kidnapped on New Year's Eve (original link) |
| January 5, 2025 | Russian Man | Phuket, Thailand | Man attacked and tied up in hotel, refuses to give up phone password, is knocked out and has cash stolen. |
| January 13, 2025 | Miami Jeweler | Miami, Florida, United States | Gang of 4 men arrested by FBI on their way to rob jeweler of $2M. |
| January 14, 2025 | Masis Erkol | Pattaya, Thailand | Man tied up in condo, forced to transfer $290,000 in cryptocurrency. |
| January 16, 2025 | Taehwa Kim | Makati, Philippines | Korean bitcoin trader kidnapped, held hostage for 3 days. No crypto taken. |
| January 20, 2025 | Chinese National | Jeju, South Korea | Gang of 6 people meet OTC trader in luxury hotel, assault and rob him of $580K in cash and crypto. |
| January 21, 2025 | David Balland & Wife | Vierzon, France | Ledger co-founder & wife kidnapped and ransomed, his finger was severed, rescued by GIGN. Ransom was partially paid but later seized via Tether Ringleader was later arrested. |
| January 24, 2025 | 30 y/o man | Troyes, France | Crypto miner was lured to a meeting, taken hostage, 20K EUR ransom demanded. Police rescued him & arrested 4 suspects. |
| January 30, 2025 | Brazilian Family | Campo Limpo Paulista, Brazil | Criminals invade home, hold family hostage, force transfer of $16,000 USD in cryptocurrencies |
| February, 2025 | Unidentified man | Okota, Lagos | Woman conspires with brother & gang to rob her boyfriend of 3 iPhones and $10K USD of bitcoin. |
| February, 2025 | 29 y/o man | São Paulo, Brazil | Man lured into OTC trade, ambushed and kidnapped at shopping center. Wife called police and gave them location of his phone; he was rescued. (original link) |
| February 2, 2025 | 34 y/o man | Costa del Sol, Spain | Crypto trader randomly met men at a hotel and told them what he did for a living. They later invited him over, took him hostage, demanded 30K EUR ransom. Trader called friend who alerted police and rescued him. |
| February 8, 2025 | 20 y/o man | Paris, France | Crypto investor lured to meeting by woman, abducted by 3 men who demand 40K EUR. |
| February 24, 2025 | 30 y/o Chinese Man | Jeju City, South Korea | 4 Chinese suspects stab man lured to perform a trade in hotel room, steal 85 million won. |
| February 28, 2025 | Chinese Man | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | Chinese gang kidnaps victim, extorts 600,000 USDT, are quickly apprehended by police. |
| March, 2025 | 30 y/o man | Sweden | Victim kidnapped by gang who took him into the woods, kicked and punched him, poured gasoline over him, threatened to set him on fire, placed pliers to his hand, and threatened to cut off his fingers. |
| March 2, 2025 | Kaitlyn Siragusa | Houston, Texas, United States | Popular Streamer Amouranth posts screenshot of $20M BTC wallet, becomes victim of armed home invasion. Her husband defended her by shooting an attacker. |
| March 13, 2025 | 41 y/o Wong | Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong | Man sells HK $318,000 worth of cryptocurrency, is then beaten with a stick and robbed of the cash he received. |
| March 21, 2025 | Retired Teacher | Imbiribeira, Brazil | Crypto manager surveilled, mother kidnapped, ransomed for 5 BTC. 4 people were later arrested. |
| March 23, 2025 | Spanish Businessman | Ipiranga, Brazil | Man kidnapped by 2 fake police officers, held for a week and drugged, demanded $50M, escaped on his own. |
| March 27, 2025 | 27 y/o Turkish man | Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong | Man brought a bag containing €5 million in cash to trade for crypto when he was attacked by two assailants, one of whom slashed him with a knife. He fought them off and they were later arrested. |
| March 29, 2025 | Anson Que | Mecauayan, Bulacan, Philippines | Businessman lured by woman to house & taken hostage. Attackers demanded $20M in cryptocurrency & received over $3M in multiple tranches. They killed the victim anyway. |
| April, 2025 | Undisclosed | Southern Spain | Five arrested for kidnapping, killing man in plot to steal his crypto assets. (original link) |
| April 13, 2025 | Ismail | PIB Colony, Pakistan | Gang poses as police, kidnaps victim, forces him to hand over Bitcoin. |
| May 1, 2025 | Undisclosed man | Paris, France | Father of crypto millionaire abducted in broad daylight, 5M EUR ransom demanded, finger severed before being rescued by police. Ringleader was later arrested. |
| May 6, 2025 | 28 y/o Italian man | New York, New York, United States | Crypto entrepreneur tortures man for weeks with a chainsaw & taser in a luxury $30K+ per month apartment. Victim escaped w/o giving up funds. |
| May 9, 2025 | Jacob Irwin-Cline | London, England | American tourist drugged by fake Uber driver who drained wallets of $123K in BTC & XRP. |
| May 13, 2025 | Pierre Noizat's daughter | Paris, France | Attempted abduction of crypto exchange CEO's daughter in broad daylight, caught on camera, attackers were fought off by her partner & bystanders. Ringleader was later arrested. |
| May 14, 2025 | Mining Facility | Coronel Bogado, Paraguay | 3 Chinese citizens entered Paraguay illegally, tried to rob a mining facility, got in a shootout with police, were deported. |
| May 17, 2025 | Festo Ivaibi | Kampala, Uganda | Crypto founder abducted by men posing as military, forced to transfer $500,000 at gunpoint. One suspect later arrested. |
| May 18, 2025 | Mother & Son | Normandie, France | Victims were being surveilled, had GPS tracker placed on their car. Police counter-surveilled the kidnappers and arrested 5 people before they attacked. |
| May 21, 2025 | Unidentified man | Seoul, South Korea | Russian nationals lure victim to hotel for crypto trade, attempt to rob him of 1 billion won, but victim escaped. |
| May 26, 2025 | Crypto Entrepreneur | Nantes, France | Police arrest 10 men in balaclavas, foiling their attempted kidnapping of a crypto entrepreneur. Ringleader was later arrested. |
| May 27, 2025 | Russian Couple | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Chechens invite victims to dinner, take them hostage and demand ransom. A friend sends them $43,000 and they flee to UAE. |
| June 13, 2025 | 26 y/o man | Juvisy-sur-Orge, France | TikTok trader kidnapped by 4 men as he was returning home, attackers demanded 50K EUR, released after opening his wallet and finding a tiny balance. |
| June 17, 2025 | 23 y/o man | Maisons-Alfort, France | A 23-year-old man was held for several hours, and the kidnappers demanded a 5k ransom from his wife. |
| June 24, 2025 | Undisclosed businessman | Goiania, Brazil | Victim tricked into attending a business meeting that ended up being a wrench attack trap. Attack failed, 2 attackers were killed by police, mastermind was caught fleeing to Miami. |
| June 25, 2025 | 33 y/o businessman | Bengaluru, India | OTC trade of $240,000 worth of rupees into USDT. Half a dozen men interrupted the transaction and robbed him. |
| June 30, 2025 | 3 people | Bangkok, Thailand | OTC trade of $100,000 USD worth of baht for crypto in a mall parking garage. The 7 suspects had done smaller trades with the victims previously. |
| July 3, 2025 | 36 year old man | London, England | A man was befriended by a group of 4 men while drinking, who eventually followed him home and knocked him out with a wrench before forcing him to use Face ID to access accounts and transfer cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| July 7, 2025 | Woman | Suresnes, France | A woman was attacked at her home and punched 10 times in front of her husband and children. |
| July 8, 2025 | 38 y/o man | Queens, New York, United States | Victim kidnapped by 6 men and held for 10 days until he transferred $6,000 in fiat & cryptocurrency |
| July 14, 2025 | Dilip Gaud & Ramesh Sharma | Jodhpur, India | 5 constables kidnap 2 men and extort them with threats of false criminal charges until they handed over cash and $9,000 USD worth of cryptocurrency. Cops were later arrested and fired. (original link) |
| July 15, 2025 | Prince Pandey | Ahmedabad, India | 3 men lured a trader into a trap and assaulted him while demanding 50,000 USDT. The victim's father contacted police and they managed to find and rescue him. |
| August 2, 2025 | 30 y/o man | Parañaque City, Philippines | 4 Chinese nationals kidnapped a man seeking money transfer services. Victim was handcuffed, threatened with a firearm, physically harmed, and forced to transfer $50,000. |
| August 5, 2025 | Unidentified man | Paris, France | 5 men threatened, kidnapped, and beat a crypto industry worker before stealing 2M euros in bitcoin from him. The attackers were quickly captured by police. |
| August 6, 2025 | Norwegian family | Oslo, Norway | Robbers posing as food-delivery workers tied up a family with three children in their home and threatened to shoot the mother unless the family handed over their cryptocurrency. Nine people were later charged, with one man apprehended. |
| August 22, 2025 | Chinese businessman | Colombo, Sri Lanka | Chinese nationals kidnap man, hold him hostage for a day until he hands over 60,000 USDT. |
| August 26, 2025 | Alexandre, Crypto trader | Paris, France | A former cryptocurrency trader, aged 35, was kidnapped and held captive between Paris and Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines). The kidnappers demanded €10K from his wife for his release. |
| August 27, 2025 | Alexander | Phuket, Thailand | A Russian national went to a house for a business investment consultation. When he arrived a group of 4 Russians assaulted him and forced him to transfer 35,000 USDT. The attackers fled the country but 1 was caught aboard a ferry. |
| August 29, 2025 | 23 y/o Swiss man | Valence, Drôme, France | A man was kidnapped and tortured for 4 days, possible mistaken identity. He was rescued by GIGN and 7 suspects were arrested. |
| September, 2025 | Undisclosed Family | Tobo, Sweden | Family tied up, mock executed, $200,000 robbed. Saved by other family members who were contacted via video game chat. (original link) |
| September 5, 2025 | Undisclosed Youth | Cambridge, Ontario, Canada | Victim forced into a van by 5 men, physically assaulted, threatened with a gun. Released after being forced to transfer cryptocurrency. |
| September 7, 2025 | Israeli man | Herzliya, Israel | Armed home-invasion: attackers bound and stabbed the resident, forced him to open an Exodus wallet and transferred ~4.94862 BTC and ~42,248.5 USDT (total ≈ $590k), stole a Trezor hardware wallet, laptop and a Rolex; suspects threatened victim and family. |
| September 19, 2025 | Family | Grant, Minnesota, United States | Two brothers from Texas held a MN family hostage at gunpoint for nine hours, forced the father to drive 3 hours to the family cabin to transfer $36,000 in crypto. Son called 911 and attackers were caught. |
| September 23, 2025 | Family | Irvine, California, United States | Home invasion of victims suspected of owning $3.8M in cryptocurrency. Attackers duct taped and threatened victims, found no crypto. 7 suspects later arrested. (original link) |
| September 26, 2025 | 42 y/o man | Rambouillet, Yvelines, France | Three men and a woman climbed over the fence of a crypto entrepreneur’s property to kidnap him. (original link) |
| September 28, 2025 | Farmer Family | Tierp, Sweden | Four people arrested after robbing family of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| October 1, 2025 | Family | Val-de-Marne, France | A woman and her two children were threatened by two masked individuals in order to blackmail her husband, who is a crypto investor. (original link) |
| October 2, 2025 | Roman & Anna Novak | Dubai, UAE | Russian crypto scammer kidnapped, ransomed, murdered, dismembered by Russian nationals after random demands were not met. (original link) |
| October 10, 2025 | Unidentified man | Kharkiv, Ukraine | Man kidnapped by 3 men in military uniform. He was zip tied, beaten, and threatened with weapons while being held hostage in a basement. Victim released after he transferred 83,000 USDT. Attackers were quickly identified and detained. (original link) |
| October 23, 2025 | Sergei Domogatskii | Sanur Beach, Bali, Indonesia | Russian influencer kidnapped, beaten, tased, until he transferred $4,600 in cryptocurrency. Attackers later demanded $1M which he couldn't pay, after which he was released. (original link) |
| October, 2025 | Waleed | Kahna, Pakistan | Bitcoin trader kidnapped by 2 cops & 2 other attackers, released after family paid $45K ransom. (original link) |
| November 1, 2025 | Chinese Man | Bangkok, Thailand | 3 men kidnap victim off street, force him to send $9,375 USDT. Attackers were later arrested. (original link) |
| November 4, 2025 | Multiple | Oxford, England | Car with 3 women & 2 men robbed by 4 men, who forced an occupant to transfer £1.1 million in cryptocurrency. Attackers were later arrested. (original link) |
| November 5, 2025 | Mario Ramón Chávez Rivas | Ciudad del Este, Alto Paraná, Paraguay | Armed assault on mining facility results in death of owner and 1 attacker. (original link) |
| November 22, 2025 | Undisclosed | San Francisco, California, United States | Armed robber posing as a delivery worker invaded home, tied up the homeowner, took $11 million worth of cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| November 22, 2025 | French man | Chalon-sur-Saône, France | Six men, including two minors, are suspected of having attempted to kidnap a man holding crypto for the fourth time. (original link) |
| November 24, 2025 | Crypto Exchange | St. Petersburg, Russia | 21 y/o man robs exchange office with airsoft grenades & smoke grenades. He demanded employees transfer cryptocurrency to his wallet. He was arrested at the scene. (original link) |
| November 26, 2025 | Danylo K | Vienna, Austria | Son of Ukrainian mayor of Kharkiv betrayed by fellow student, tortured, burned to death after revealing cryptocurrency wallets. (original link) |
| November, 2025 | Crypto holder | Challes-les-Eaux, Savoie, France | 3 men aged 25-30 charged with kidnapping, sequestration in organized group, extortion and money laundering of a crypto holder; 2 of them are also charged in the December 2025 Dompierre-sur-Mer case. Anonymous forum post claims the haul was ~$3.8M. (original link) |
| December 1, 2025 | 53 y/o man | Val-d'Oise, France | The father of a crypto entrepreneur based in Dubai was kidnapped by 4 people. (original link) |
| December 8, 2025 | Undisclosed | Miami, Florida, United States | UK rapper "Buckfiddy" charged with armed robbery of $563K in cryptocurrency and $400K in jewelery. (original link) |
| December 10, 2025 | Undisclosed | Spain | Five arrested in Spain for kidnapping, killing man in plot to steal his crypto assets. (original link) |
| December 12, 2025 | Teenager | Toulon, Var, France | A 17-year-old teenager kidnapped by two men to blackmail his older brother, a trader in Dubai. (original link) |
| December 13, 2025 | Mr. Yu | Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong | Crypto exchange owner & employee threatened by 4 or 5 men with knives. They resisted and the attackers fled empty-handed. (original link) |
| December 17, 2025 | Unidentified man | San Jose, California, United States | A man was attacked by two assailants with a gun while returning home from work. Attack was interrupted midway by a delivery truck driving by and attackers fled. (original link) |
| December 18, 2025 | Family | La Rochelle, France | Three attackers invaded a home, tied up family, and made several crypto transfers. Unconfirmed rumor is they took $10M. (original link) |
| December 18, 2025 | Unidentified businessmen | Sheung Wan, Hong Kong | At least three attackers stole multiple briefcases of cash from employees of an unidentified Japanese cryptocurrency company as they arrived at a Hong Kong currency exchange. (original link) |
| December 22, 2025 | Unidentified man | Sunnyvale, California, United States | Two attackers posing as DoorDash drivers forced their way inside a man's home while brandishing a gun, they fled after the man fought back. The attackers used access to the victim's Doordash account to surveil his location and monitor when he was placing food orders they could impersonate. (original link) |
| December 29, 2025 | Lyu Chenglong | Bangkok, Thailand | Man kidnapped by attackers posing as police, who demanded victim's older brother pay a cryptocurrency ransom. Brother paid but also called real police who raided and arrested the attackers. (original link) |
| December 31, 2025 | Unidentified man and woman | Los Angeles, California, United States | An attacker pretending to deliver a package asked the victim for a glass of water, who let him into his home. The attacker pointed a gun and was joined by an additional suspect with a third person providing support on the phone. Attackers threatened to cut off the victim's fingers, but were scared away after the woman escaped and called the police. One suspect was also involved in the Dec 22 Sunnyvale attack. (original link) |
| January 4, 2026 | Young man | Dijon, Côte-d’Or, France | Young man kidnapped and held captive over crypto scam. (original link) |
| January 6, 2026 | Woman | Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France | A woman was held captive by several hooded individuals. (original link) |
| January 8, 2026 | Family | La Chapelle-Saint-Aubin, Sarthe, France | A couple and 3 children held hostage for 40min over crypto. (original link) |
| January 9, 2026 | 43 y/o man | Saint-Léger-sous-Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, France | 43 years old man kidnapped for his crypto. (original link) |
| January 10, 2026 | Family | Verneuil-sur-Seine, Yvelines, France | A cryptocurrency investor and their family tied up and beaten. (original link) |
| January 10, 2026 | 60 y/o woman | Zoersel, Belgium | Armed home invasion by 2 men who beat and tied up doctor, but she didn't have any crypto. (original link) |
| January 13, 2026 | RATIRL | Sweden | Home invasion and torture of League of Legends streamer. He didn't have cryptocurrency, attackers only took his Pokémon cards. 2 suspects arrested. (original link) |
| January 14, 2026 | Retired couple | Sallanches, Haute-Savoie, France | A couple kidnapped for their son's money, €8 million in cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| January 16, 2026 | Unidentified Chinese man | Pasay City, Philippines | Home invasion by 4 men who tied up and threatened a Chinese man, at least $400,000 in crypto stolen. (original link) |
| January 24, 2026 | Yong Wang | Arnavutköy, Istanbul, Turkey | A 38-year-old Chinese businessman was killed and found buried in the ground with his hands and feet bound with packing tape. (original link) |
| January 25, 2026 | Retired man | Voiron, Isère, France | A 74-year-old man was kidnapped by individuals seeking to extort cryptocurrency from his son. They tried to cut off his little finger, eventually released him without ransom being paid. (original link) |
| January 28, 2026 | Family | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | A family was targeted in four home invasion attempts, including one where a shot was fired. (original link) |
| January 31, 2026 | Family | Scottsdale, Arizona, United States | Home invasion by two teenagers posing as delivery drivers seeking an alleged $66M in crypto. (original link) |
| February 4, 2026 | Mother & Daughter | Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux, Isère, France | Mother & daughter kidnapped during home invasion. They were released after 30 hours with injuries. (original link) |
| February 6, 2026 | Family | Juilly, Seine-et-Marne, France | A couple and their 20-year-old daughter were violently held captive by a group of criminals searching for bitcoins. (original link) |
| February 12, 2026 | Binance France CEO | Val-de-Marne, France | 3 men searched the home of the CEO of Binance France, before realizing he was not there and fleeing after stealing two phones. (original link) |
| February 12, 2026 | Woman | Vaucresson, Hauts-de-Seine, France | A woman was struck on the head by several masked men who had gone to the wrong address while looking for a crypto entrepreneur. (original link) |
| February 20th, 2026 | Husband and wife | Seattle, Washington, United States | A man posing as a postal worker handed a letter to a homeowner and told the homeowner to open it. The letter demanded an amount of cryptocurrency, before the suspect forced his way inside and assaulted the victim and his wife. (original link) |
| March 4th, 2026 | Sillytuna | Hun Hom, Hong Kong | Game developer and erstwhile crypto enthusiast Sillytuna has reported being forced to hand over almost $24 million worth of crypto in a violent robbery. (original link) |
| March 6th, 2026 | 25 y/o Chinese Businessman | Hun Hom, Hong Kong | Man seeking to trade detained and assaulted by 4 men at a hotel and forced to hand over crypto passwords, leading to the theft of about $680,000 in cryptocurrency and 42 kg of silver. (original link) |
| March 8, 2026 | Family | Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France | Several individuals posing as police officers attempted to break into a home, hoping to get cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| March 8, 2026 | Undisclosed | Winnetka, Illinois, United States | Man posing as food delivery driver gains access to home. Armed intruders invaded, took occupant hostage, demanded access to cryptocurrency. 6 suspects were arrested and charged. (original link) |
| March 9, 2026 | Husband and wife | Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, Yvelines, France | 3 men posing as police rob €900,000 in bitcoin from a couple during violent homejacking. (original link) |
| March 10, 2026 | Mother and children | Vaires-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France | Two criminals tied up a mother and her two adult children to extort cryptocurrency. The family was targeted by mistake. (original link) |
| March 10, 2026 | Man | Essonne, France | Two criminals carrying small explosives attempted to enter an unidentified man's home seeking cryptocurrency (original link) |
| March 16, 2026 | Crypto company CEO | Loire-Atlantique, France | Armed men broke into the home of a middle-aged crypto company CEO near Nantes, struck him in the head and were driven off by the alarm system. (original link) |
| March 16, 2026 | Canadian businessman | Madrid, Spain | Three Serbs kidnap a Canadian millionaire in cryptocurrencies on the fashionable street of Madrid. (original link) |
| March 23, 2026 | 57 y/o woman | Péchabou, Haute-Garonne, France | Violent kidnapping resulting in the transfer of €68,000. (original link) |
| March 29, 2026 | 23 y/o man | Boulogne-Billancourt, France | Four young individuals, aged 21 to 24, are suspected of attempting to attack a young man. (original link) |
| March 31, 2026 | 25 y/o woman | Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France | A 25-year-old woman was kidnapped and held hostage by two men for cryptocurrency. (original link) |
| April 2, 2026 | Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie | Maidenhead, Berkshire, England | Four men invade home, tie up family, demand crypto, fail to get any. (original link) |
| April 10, 2026 | Undisclosed | Anglet, France | Four masked people invade home, held occupants, couldn't find crypto businessman target, left with jewelry. (original link) |
| April 11, 2026 | Family | Saint-Jean-de-Védas, France | An individual held a family at gunpoint, and he got into a fight with the father. (original link) |
| April 13, 2026 | Mother and son | Val-de-Marne, France | Mother and her 10 years old child kidnapped (original link) |
| April 17, 2026 | South Korean Man | Malacca, Malaysia | 3 South Korean men abduct fellow South Korean, demand $10M USDT from his family, receive $3M. He was rescued by police and most of the ransom recovered (original link) |
| April 20, 2026 | Family | Ploudalmézeau, Finistère, France | Two men held three adults and two children hostage at their home, and managed to extort €700,000 in cryptocurrency from them. (original link) |
| May 6, 2026 | Couple | Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France | Three armed men burst into a couple's home, tied them up, and beat them before searching the house for crypto. (original link) |
| May 11, 2026 | Undisclosed | Ottrott , Bas-Rhin, France | A man was targeted in two kidnapping attempts after conducting cryptocurrency transactions in the region. (original link) |
| May 20, 2026 | Sébastien Borget's wife | Seine-et-Marne, France | 5 hooded accomplices attempted to kidnap victim from her home, but were stopped by neighbors who heard her screams. 2 attackers were quickly arrested. (original link) |
| May 22, 2026 | 25 y/o man | Mulhouse, France | Forced into a car, a 25-year-old man found himself blindfolded, his hands tied behind his back, and facing death threats. (original link) |