Crypto user in France because of Ledger Wallet

According to reports, there has been another incident in France in which cryptocurrency users have targeted. This time it was about the kidnapping of a 23-year-old man in a Paris suburb.

According to a report by the French news magazine Le Parisien on Thursday, the victim was kidnapped in Maison-Alfort and held for several hours, while the perpetrators from his partner demanded the release of 5,000 euros ($ 5,764) in cash and the key to an Ledger hardware wallet with an unknown amount of cryptocurrencies.

The report indicates that criminal violence was used to obtain information about its digital assets.

According to reports, the unnamed man was held trapped on Tuesday before he was released in the city of Cré parts.

The alleged kidnapping and ransom incident was the youngest in a number of crimes in which people were targeted because of their crypto seat, although in some cases it was reportedly about torture for access to seed phrases or keys. In a much-noticed case in May, three men, the daughter and grandson of Pierre Nokat, the co-founder and CEO of the Crypto exchange Paymium, tried to kidnap.

The cases, which are sometimes also called “wrench attacks”, are not limited to France. In New York, two people were charged with the kidnapping and deprivation of a tourist to obtain access to his crypto letter bag. In India, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Spain, similar cases of kidnapping and ransom payment have become known to crypto owners in the past five years.