{"id":639740,"date":"2026-08-06T15:11:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=837232"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:11:39","slug":"report-crypto-holders-lose-30m-as-wrench-attacks-spiral-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/report-crypto-holders-lose-30m-as-wrench-attacks-spiral-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Crypto Holders Lose $30M as Wrench Attacks Spiral Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/report-crypto-holders-lose-30m-as-wrench-attacks-spiral-worldwide-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Criminal wrench attack scene.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Criminals stole more than $30 million from cryptocurrency holders through violence in the first half of 2026, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis reported on Thursday, putting the year on pace to break 2025&#8217;s record of $58 million. The crimes fall under a category security researchers call &#8220;wrench attacks.&#8221; The term comes from an old internet joke [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminals stole more than $30 million from cryptocurrency holders through violence in the first half of 2026, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis reported on Thursday, putting the year on pace to break 2025&#8217;s record of $58 million. The crimes fall under a category security researchers call &#8220;wrench attacks.&#8221; The term comes from an old internet joke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-639740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}