Someone was reported to have made his fortune from cryptocurrencies. His father was kidnapped. The kidnappers demanded for ransom but not stated if the ransom was bitcoin or any other cryptocurrencies. I tried to read other news but I did not get the details of the ransom asked for by the kidnappers.
You can read the news yourself from any of these two links:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ew98rllxyohttp://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna204718But is also happened in France.
Crypto owners that are known to the public are getting targeted in France. You can remember the co-founder of French crypto-wallet firm Ledger, David Balland, was also kidnapped with his wife in January from their home in the region of Cher of central France.
The more the reasons to why we should value our privacy the more, not all the time we have to let the world know what we are up to, where we live and things we do, once they know more information about us, they can try to look for the easiest way of penetrating in and attack using anything the see could hurt us, just as they have done to the victim form the story we red, i dont think this is the first of its kind happening, which i believe that people should have learnt thier lessons by now.