The Grisliest Bitcoin and Crypto Wrench Attacks That Grabbed Headlines in 2025
Crypto’s growing mainstream presence has not been all good news for investors.
Alongside Bitcoin’s price rise, a growing list of wrench attacks—that is, physical attacks meant to coerce a victim to hand over access to their crypto holdings—have taken place over the course of 2025.
According to a publicly available database of wrench attacks from Jameson Lopp, CTO of security firm Casa, at least 65 wrench attacks have been documented this year, with the expectation that many others go publicly unreported.
Below we’ll walk through some of the most gruesome, high-profile wrench attacks that grabbed headlines this year,
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