As the cryptocurrency sector grows larger, its participants increasingly become targets of hacking attempts, rug pulls, and even outright threats to their lives, including in the shocking case of the kidnapping of a crypto miner in the city of Izhevsk, Russia.
Specifically, a criminal gang had recently targeted a 23-year-old cryptocurrency miner, forcibly taking him from the yard in front of his house and driving away in a vehicle registered to a Perm retiree on December 25, according to a report by Ren TV on December 27.
Afterward, the kidnappers, one of whom was familiar with the victim, reached out to his brother via Telegram, demanding a ransom in the amount of 15 million rubles (around $166,000). Otherwise, they said they would plant drugs on the abductee and hand him over to the police.
However, the authorities managed to quickly find and detain the perpetrators, who already had a criminal record, including for prior charges of robbery and extortion, and who are now facing up to
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