WSJ: In the world, twelve -two abductions of those with -owned cryptocurrency companies

Recently, a series of abductions and attacks on the owned cryptocurrency companies took place worldwide to obtain a ransom in cryptocurrency. On Sunday, May 18, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) wrote.

The last incident, which describes the publication, took place in Paris last week. There, unknown people tried to kidnap the daughter of the leader of the Paymium Cryptocurrency Exchange and her two -year -old son. The wife and neighbors saved them. The attacks were injured by the man.

In other cases, criminals have managed to kidnap their victims.

“For example, in the winter, at the hands of the attacks were one of the ledger’s co -Founders David Ballan. The incident also took place in France. For an entrepreneur and another person who abducted him, exortions demanded 10 million Euro. They sent a video with Ballan, where they cut off a finger,” the newspaper.

Balance police found when the company had already paid part of the ransom.

“The second hostage was found later elsewhere after another payment. In total, Ledger moved 3 million euros to criminals, but returned almost to the full amount, as cryptocurrency could be frozen,” the publication said.

Generally, according to the WSJ, in France, five such abductions have taken place in recent months, and there have been twelve cases around the world last year.

“In search for victims, the attacks were assisted by the fact that often the data of cryptocurrency due to hacker attacks began to fall into open access,” the publication notes.

To protect themselves, cryptoelites representatives are trying to delete personal data from the network, especially the addresses that hide profiles on social networks.

The federal court in New York punished the founder and former CEO of Celsius Cryptform, Alex Mashinsky in 12 years in prison for fraud with security and goods.