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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 3, 2026Published at 1:57 AM EDT · New York
Masked Men Beat a Crypto Holder With Hammers in England and Took Instructions by Video Call
Police have offered a £10,000 reward in a Solihull home invasion in which three attackers forced a transfer worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Three masked men forced their way into a home in the Smith's Wood area of Solihull, in the West Midlands of England, and assaulted a crypto holder for about 45 minutes, striking his face, head and ribs with hammers while holding his seven-m…
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Compliance Data Becomes the Attack Surface
Mandated identity collection keeps concentrating name-to-address links inside brokers and their banking partners, so each breach permanently deanonymizes holders and sustains a pipeline of phishing and physical attacks, pushing users toward privacy tooling and custodial products.
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