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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 8, 2026Published at 1:50 AM EDT · New York
Armed men force a foreign resident near Pattaya to transfer about $820,000 in crypto, a Telegram channel reports
The reported home invasion in Thailand came alongside a French case in which kidnappers held a 60-year-old gold trader for 18 days and took nearly €500,000, adding to a run of physical attacks on holders of liquid assets.
Three armed men broke into a luxury villa in Nong Prue, near Pattaya in Thailand, at about 3:30 a.m. on October 6 and forced a foreign resident at gunpoint to transfer about $820,000 in crypto, according to the French-language Telegram chan…
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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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