Bitcoin Or Your Life? Israeli Trader Stabbed, $600K Stolen in Home Attack

According to the Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office, a Bitcoin trader in Herzliya was attacked and robbed in what prosecutors call a violent home invasion on September ￰0￱ victim was stabbed and forced to give up digital wallet ￰1￱ say the thieves walked away with roughly $600,000 in assets and ￰2￱ The Attack Unfolded Reports have disclosed that the assailants waited in the stairwell outside the victim’s apartment and struck at about 8:10 ￰3￱ forced their way in when the door ￰4￱ attacker tied the man up and stabbed him twice, each wound above the ￰5￱ threatened harm to his family to force him to hand over wallet ￰6￱ first, the group demanded 500 Bitcoin, a demand that was later scaled down as violence was used to extract ￰7￱ pressure, the victim surrendered credentials that allowed transfers of approximately $547,260 in Bitcoin and $42,248 in ￰8￱ intruders also took a Rolex watch valued at about $50,000, a laptop, a Trezor hardware wallet, around €5,300 in cash and several thousand Israeli ￰9￱ leaving, they sprayed disinfectant inside the flat—apparently in an effort to erase ￰10￱ And Charges Based on reports, police arrested 46-year-old Murad Mahajna on September ￰11￱ was indicted by the Tel Aviv District Attorney’s ￰12￱ charges include breaking and entering, aggravated robbery, extortion by threats, obstruction of justice and making ￰13￱ say they linked Mahajna to the scene using phone records, voice identification, technological data and CCTV ￰14￱ is described as having a criminal history with 10 prior convictions for matters including violence, drugs and ￰15￱ And Evidence The sums in this case are ￰16￱ $589,508 in crypto was reportedly moved from the victim’s accounts — the combined total of the Bitcoin and USDT ￰17￱ the watch and cash are added, the financial loss approaches the headline figure of $600K that circulated in early reports.

Crypto-analytics sources tracking physical attacks on holders listed this event among confirmed “wrench” style assaults ; one count put it as the 52nd such physical attack recorded in ￰18￱ calls allegedly made after the assault pressured the victim for more coins and included threats to “find” family members if demands were not ￰19￱ image from Vecteezy, chart from TradingView