Just to highlight a paragraph from the article;
This is alarming because the crypto related cases is not just increasing but also getting dangerous each year , in the past ransom is being asked but there is no killing happens but now? this is an obvious attempt to scared all crypto holders in the world that they can be treated like this if they don't cooperate in those crimes.
Now this made me the think of declining to expose any other way of my KYC as this is the only way why we are being exposed from this criminals.
Even with fiat such things do happen, the increase in crypto acceptance has nothing to do with increasing crime rate, all this things already happening before crypto became popular, it is unfortunate that some bad individuals have decided to act this way and use crypto to demand ransom instead of fiat, they feel it will be difficult for the authorities to trace them by using crypto, you should note that performing kyc is some better because with that it will be easy to trace such kind of people.