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How a Fabricated Police Raid Led to a $1M Bitcoin Transfer
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Attackers posed as police to carry out a $1 million Bitcoin theft, highlighting the growing trend of physical coercion schemes targeting cryptocurrency holders rather than exploiting digital vulnerabilities.
A fake police raid enabled a $1 million Bitcoin robbery, exposing the rise of wrench attacks and the shift from digital hacks to physical crypto threats.
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