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.
If you are into crypto, you don’t have to make it public to everyone to know, because if people knows that you make money from bitcoin, or maybe you holding bitcoin, then they going to start targeting you, so always make sure you don’t make people know that you holding bitcoin, even if you are teaching anyone about bitcoin, make sure you don’t make use of your main wallet to explain things to them so that they won’t know the amount you are holding, when introducing people to bitcoin, don’t mention the amount you are holding, don’t let them know how much you holding in your wallet, because who you might be trying to help, might end up harming you.