jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks
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A list of known attacks against Bitcoin / crypto asset owning entities that occurred in meatspace.
22 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 6 stories, 16 comments · first 2018-12-27 · latest 2026-10-22
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…are secondary to socially engineering goals which they dishonestly deny are incompatible with same. https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks That is objectively, justifiably classifiable as manipulative and destructive. To…
comment by midmagico · 2026-10-22 · in Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany -
…to physical attacks to obtain valuable cryptographic signing keys stored in full in one place. https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks I can only guess the people painting targets on their backs that big are woefully unaware of…
comment by lrvick · 2026-08-28 · in Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why -
…actor will be up against some impossibly secure device, the reality tends to be a lot simpler https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks especially if they find you have dedicated hardware with the sole purpose of securing crypto.
comment by miladyincontrol · 2026-04-07 · in Bitcoin on the Home Server: Sovereignty with Coldcard, Sparrow and Fulcrum -
…but they are, and people will target them over it. I am afraid this is going to get people hurt. https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks Nix choosing low supply chain security to maximize the total number of packages endangers…
comment by lrvick · 2025-10-16 · in Pwning the Nix ecosystem -
…power and risk to them. Kidnappings and torture are becoming common as people realize this https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks If you directly or indirectly control secret keys of any significant financial value on your own,…
comment by lrvick · 2025-05-25 · in Crypto investor charged with kidnapping and torturing -
Over 10 years, ~100 physical attacks targeting crypto assets, https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks Physical security primer for Bitcoin (2019), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgPhPkS2yc
comment by walterbell · 2025-01-25 · in French police free kidnapped Ledger executive -
…list of known attacks against Bitcoin / crypto asset owning entities that occurred in meatspace.” https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks
comment by bag_boy · 2024-09-15 · in Twelve sentenced for violent home invasion robberies to steal cryptocurrency -
XKCD saw this coming a long way off: https://xkcd.com/538/ See also https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/maste... , with examples dating all the way back to 2014.
comment by lambdaone · 2024-06-29 · in A violent gang's ruthless crypto-stealing home invasion spree -
When I read this, I thought "come on, does that really happen?" https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks
comment by RockRobotRock · 2024-05-17 · in Android's theft protection features -
…somebody is an entirely different threat model, although it's very common in the Bitcoin world: https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks
comment by rippercushions · 2023-05-16 · in Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet -
…because your crypto portfolio is visible to everyone? There are plenty of examples of that: https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks
comment by poma · 2022-01-21 · in Crypto.com accounts had unauthorized withdrawals -
…I for one don't want to be tortured with a drill and there is a long list of such events: https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks Some people say the same things about encryption, but it is a very accurate parallel that it…
comment by ajkdhcb2 · 2021-09-14 · in Why Monero -
…are physical attacks perpetrated against bitcoin owners. I've been tracking them for several years. https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks
comment by statoshi · 2021-07-09 · in Casa Client Case Study: The Tinder Trap -
…"database" of wrench attacks. It's maintained by the same author of this article (Jameson Lopp). https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/maste...
comment by heynk · 2021-07-09 · in Casa Client Case Study: The Tinder Trap -
https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks
comment by berberous · 2018-12-27 · in Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets -
…meat-space 'monkey wrench' coercion or spy-novel style guile. This is not a theoretical risk! https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/maste...
comment by Obi_Juan_Kenobi · 2018-12-27 · in Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets