jlopp / physical-bitcoin-attacks

A list of known attacks against Bitcoin / crypto asset owning entities that occurred in meatspace.
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Robbery of $4.1M - Chengdu, China, details sketchy though #68

Open cointastical opened 1 year ago

cointastical commented 1 year ago

Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/KrQxK8IKRQjAjsrtYV7P2w [In chinese]

Using Google Translate:

It is understood that the victim participated in an offline digital currency investor gathering, and was controlled in the car after the meal. The criminals forcibly used the victim's facial recognition to unlock the mobile phone and wallet software, and exchanged the cryptocurrency in the wallet for 4.1 million [USDT] coins ( equivalent to about 28 million RMB) , immediately transferred the funds and left.

The article doesn't provide a name, and doesn't mention if this was reported to the police even.

WuBlockchain has summarized this, but no verification. https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/status/1611399898246844416

I didn't create a pull request because I'm not sure there's enough here to be a credible report of a physical attack, but wanted to share so it is on your radar in case more details exist, or may emerge at a later date.

abdulmenan10 commented 5 months ago

Good