By the end of this lesson you’ll know how thieves pick a holder out of a crowd, what a leaked customer file does for them, what the physical attacks of 2025 and 2026 looked like, and the habits that keep you off the list.
How you get picked
Chainalysis’s August 2026 report on violent attacks says victims are chosen through “exposed information, whether from data breaches, social-media activity, or insider knowledge.” Those are the three ways anyone learns you hold crypto. You tell them, a company you trusted tells them, or someone inside that company sells it.
You tell them
Social-media activity
A company tells them
A data breach
An insider sells it
Insider knowledge
How anyone learns you hold crypto
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