Your wallet is encrypted.
Your home address isn't.
Wrench attacks are kidnappings, home invasions and violent coercion to force a crypto transfer, and they are surging worldwide. Attackers don't need to crack your keys. They need to find you. Biscayne Secure's Digital Executive Protection removes the trail that leads them to your door.
Every dot is a real person who was found, followed and forced.
Explore 380+ publicly reported wrench attacks across 55+ countries. Search by name or place, filter by year, country, victim type or how the victim was found, switch to a heatmap, or press play to watch the threat spread year by year. Click any marker for the details and the original source.
Filters
change in reported incidents in — compared with the year before, in this dataset.
incidents where the victims were family or household members (spouses, parents, children, couples), based on the victim field.
Derived grouping. See README.crypto-linked kidnappings or sequestrations recorded in France between 1 January and late May 2026. Police count 135 since 2023.
Source: French judicial police figures via Le JDDThis dataset of — publicly reported physical attacks involving cryptocurrency combines incidents from Jameson Lopp’s Known Physical Bitcoin Attacks list with incidents Biscayne Secure found independently in news reports, court records, police and prosecutor releases, other trackers and its own records, across many languages. Updated weekly. Inclusion does not mean every case is confirmed or resolved.
Methodology
Each incident has its own case study with source links; together they cite — distinct source websites. Where reporting doesn't say how the victim was found, the exposure category is “Unknown” and is excluded from percentages. Locations are geocoded from city/region/country with OpenStreetMap Nominatim; amber markers are approximate (region or country level). Victim type is a simple grouping derived from the victim field.
Heading to a crypto conference?
Conferences put crypto holders in one predictable place, often abroad, late at night and wearing a badge. These incidents happened near or in connection with crypto events.
Before your next event: pre-travel exposure scrub, posting and location discipline, badge and hotel OPSEC, and threat monitoring for the week you're there.
Plan a pre-event security reviewFrom exposure to incident, and the protection that closes the gap.
Each case is tagged with the exposure category that made the target findable. We map that category to the specific Biscayne protection built to remove it.
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Attackers start with open-source intelligence.
They search before they show up.
Every post, panel and podcast leaks data about your personal life. Here are the eight sources criminals use to identify and locate crypto holders. Select one to see what they find, how it's used, and how we close it.
Exposed vs. protected. Flip each card.
Digital Executive Protection pairs exposure reduction (data broker removals, account and device hardening) with continuous monitoring and a rapid-response path. Every card maps a real-world exposure to the Biscayne service that removes it.
Monitoring can't guarantee prevention. It shortens detection time and, paired with exposure reduction, materially lowers the odds that an attack succeeds. Structuring guidance (LLC or trust) is coordinated with your own legal counsel.
Identify. Defend. Respond.
Identify exposed data
- Dark web leaks
- Vulnerable online accounts
- Problematic posts
- Public records audits
Defend and monitor
- Breach data leak alerts
- Online threat monitoring
- Privacy and reputation scans
Rapid response
- Consultation during crisis
- Investigation of bad actors
- Engagement with law enforcement
How easy are you to find?
12 questions, about 2 minutes. Your score is weighted by how real attackers found their victims in our incident data, with the statistics and the fix for each risk factor.
Discretion is the product.
Biscayne provides discreet digital protection to high-risk leaders, including crypto and financial executives, athletes, celebrities and family offices.
Questions crypto clients ask us
What is a wrench attack?
What is Digital Executive Protection?
Can you stop SIM swaps and protect my phone?
How quickly can you reduce my exposure?
Will my family be protected too?
Do I need to tell you what I hold or share wallet details?
I'm an influencer. Do I have to stop posting?
Can monitoring prevent an attack outright?
Is this confidential?
Don't wait to be the next dot on the map.
Schedule a confidential consultation with a former national security professional. We'll show you what an attacker can find about you, and how fast we can make it disappear.