French authorities logged 90 crypto-related kidnapping, extortion, threat and violent-theft cases in just over seven months of 2026. The Interior Ministry figure, given to Cointelegraph, triples Chainalysis's public count, and more than 40% of the French incidents Chainalysis tracked hit holders' relatives or acquaintances.
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BasedApp said a breach exposed passport numbers and home addresses linked to customer wallets, without saying how many of its 100,000-plus users were hit. The leak gives Recap a live example in its fight against HMRC's draft power to demand crypto records without tribunal approval.
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FBI told staff in an internal memo to assume hacking group ShinyHunters stole data on every employee after a claimed 2 to 3 terabyte breach of FBIjobs.gov. Until the bureau confirms the scale, staff and the job applicants the hackers say are also in the files have reason to treat their home addresses as exposed.
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The request came from an unauthorized account on a real government domain, and Revolut acted on it. The company calls the number of affected customers limited, and it declined to say how many or name the agency.
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The group calling itself iamnotavillain wants 6,000 Monero within 24 hours and Revolut says no demand has reached it. The data went out through a government email account the bank was obliged to answer.
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