Especially in 2020, the serious movements in the crypto money exchange caused investors to switch to digital currencies. In this way, a new target door was opened for opportunists. In recent years, we have come to hear about cryptocurrency scams or robberies. A first-year student at London Kent University was attacked with a knife in his dormitory room by a group of 8 people who wanted to access his Bitcoin account information. The student left campus and returned home.
The student’s mother said, “The only precaution the university took was to move her to a different accommodation. “My son was so traumatized that he returned home even though he had a different accommodation,” she said. He also stated that before his child settled in a dormitory, he talked to a friend from school about cryptocurrencies.
The case was unsuccessful:
According to the student, his Bitcoin account was worth about 6 thousand euros at the time of the incident, now it has reached 68 thousand euros. The attackers confiscated the student’s 3,000 euros. After the student was attacked, she tried to reach the police and security guards. However, the authorities did not deal with the student.
The family sought ways to get back the money they lost by filing a lawsuit. But the Canterbury District Police Department dropped the case 8 months later. The student’s mother expressed her regret that the security guards and the police did nothing about the issue. He warned other students against such attacks.
Bitcoin heists have been happening for years, but especially since the second half of 2020, there has been a huge increase in crypto heists putting bitcoin or other digital assets at risk as the crypto economy has gained in value. It will increase your security by making sure that you only talk to reliable people about your savings, and of course, not to give credit to those who ask for your crypto account information by introducing themselves as judges, prosecutors, public officials.
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