Crypto Security Now Extends Past the Wallet to the Customer's Address

A French family was tied up for hours by attackers after their crypto. Police have not said how the attackers chose the house, and that gap is where the industry’s data problem lives. At around 4 a.m.

on September 20, four hooded men forced their way into a family home in northern France. They bound the parents and two children with black tape and forced the father to hand over his access codes and move 40,000 euros.  The father is a salaried IT worker in the crypto industry.

Prosecutors have not said yet how the attackers identified him. Has France become the crypto crime capital of the world?

Four masked men broke into a family home in France, tied up the parents and their two children, and forced the father to transfer €40,000 in crypto.The numbers are alarming:• 77 crypto-related crimes and attempts in… pic.twitter.com/MnHBJ47QWA— BeInCrypto (@beincrypto) September 21, 2026 A separate incident in the same month showed how easily that kind of information gets out.