Following the TF1 account, the woman opened the door of her house when the individuals identified themselves as the police, only to be then pushed and kidnapped inside alongside her husband. The slightly injured woman and her husband were forced onto their sofa, where the man was tied up by the kidnappers. Afterwards, one of the individuals pulled out a knife and threatened to attack the woman if her husband didn\u2019t transfer the equivalent of \u20ac900K in bitcoin. Around 9 a.m., when the robbery was completed, the individuals fled in a white van. Only then was the injured woman able to untie her husband and called the neighbors for help.<\/p>\n
The Investigation<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made just yet. The Versailles prosecutor\u2019s office has opened an investigation for kidnapping and armed robbery by an organized gang, as well as criminal conspiracy, according to TF1. The investigations are being carried out by the Brigade de r\u00e9pression du banditisme (BRB).<\/p>\n
From Online Exploits To Violent Offline Attacks<\/h2>\n
This is not an isolated horror: it is but the latest entry in a growing ledger of real\u2011world Bitcoin heists.<\/p>\n
On March 4, as reported by out sister website Bitcoinist<\/a>, veteran trader \u201cMr Silly\u201d suffered a multimillion\u2011dollar theft, where address poisoning and an offline robbery combined to strip him of roughly $24 million and push him out of the market. On November 24, 2025, an armed robber invaded a San Francisco home<\/a> posing as a delivery worker. The modus operandi was pretty similar to the Le Chesnay crime: the homeowner was tied up and the attacker took the victim\u2019s cellphone, laptop, and $11 million worth of cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n In France, kidnappings for cryptocurrencies have multiplied since the begging of 2025, TF1 claims. In January last year, the co-founder of Ledger, David Balland, was abducted and later freed by the police. Just last month, on February 12, the head of Binance France, was targeted by also three (poorly prepared) hooded individuals in a failed home invasion in his Val-de-Marne apartment, french outlet RTL News reported.<\/a><\/p>\n For Bitcoin holders, the lesson is brutally simple: the attack surface has moved from your seed phrase to your front door<\/p>\n Cover image from Perplexity, BTCUSDT chart from Tradingview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three individuals stole almost $1M on Bitcoin from a couple at knife point at their home. The Bitcoin Crime Modus Operandi French outlet TF1 Info reported today that on early Monday morning, a man and a woman in their late fifties were held captive in their home in Le Chesnay, Yvelines (France), by three individuals…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[22,28,32],"class_list":["post-10458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin-news","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-news","tag-btc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Bitcoin,](\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BTCUSDT_2026-03-10_13-56-03.png?w=860&resize=860%2C664\")
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