A violent home invasion in southern France shows how cryptocurrency wealth is spilling into the real world — and turning investors into physical targets.

A 23-year-old Brooklyn resident, Ronald Spektor, stands accused of orchestrating a sophisticated phishing scheme that drained $16 million from Coinbase users. Prosecutors say Spektor, using the online alias “lolimfeelingevil,” targeted unsuspecting victims by posing as an official Coinbase support agent, warning them that their crypto holdings were at risk of theft.

A South Korean man’s attempt to secure a lighter punishment for laundering funds through cryptocurrency has backfired dramatically, with an appeals court overturning his suspended sentence and sending him to prison for four years.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has confirmed that the former FTX Executives including Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, and Alameda Research CEO Carolien Ellison will be barred from serving in corporate leadership roles for the next decade.

Jarett Dunn, the Pump.fun developer who stole an estimated $2 million worth of Solana from his then employee, which is later donated to thousands of random addresses, was sentenced to six years in prison by a London judge.

Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research and ex-girlfriend of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, has been quietly transferred out of federal prison after serving approximately 11 months of her two-year sentence, according to Business Insider.

Spanish law enforcement has arrested five people linked to a brutal kidnapping and murder in Málaga earlier this year, believed to be part of a “wrench attack”—a violent tactic used to force victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency wallets. Authorities in Denmark have also charged four additional suspects connected to the case.

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon is fighting a legal battle on two fronts as he is begging for U.S. prosecutors to limit his prison term to five years as prosecutors in South Korea are weighing a potential 40-year sentence over his role in the collapse of the Terra ecosystem.

A Canadian family in British Columbia has survived a horrific 13-hour terror attack, making their case one of the country's most extreme crypto-related "wrench attacks".

Travis Ford, the co-founder and CEO of Wolf Capital Crypto Trading LLC, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison in federal prison for operating a $9.4 million crypto investment scheme that defrauded nearly 2,800 investors, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on November 14.