{"id":89668,"date":"2024-10-18T08:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T12:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=89668"},"modified":"2024-10-18T08:16:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T12:16:54","slug":"historic-bitcoin-theft-tied-to-connecticut-kidnapping-luxury-cars-500k-bar-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2024\/historic-bitcoin-theft-tied-to-connecticut-kidnapping-luxury-cars-500k-bar-bills.html","title":{"rendered":"Historic bitcoin theft tied to Connecticut kidnapping, luxury cars, $500K bar bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Two young men accused of committing one of the largest person-to-person crypto thefts in U.S. history went on a brazen spending spree that included buying exotic cars and a $2 million wristwatch, renting mansions and running up nightclub tabs of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Aug. 18 cyber heist swindled a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/media\/1369661\/dl?inline\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C.,<\/a>\u00a0resident out of $230 million in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/indictment-charges-two-230-million-cryptocurrency-scam\" target=\"_blank\">cryptocurrency<\/a>. To date, at least $100 million in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BTC.CM=\/\">bitcoin<\/a>\u00a0stolen from the victim remains unaccounted for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/10\/17\/cryptocurrency-theft-google-kidnapping-lamborghi-bar-.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Two young men accused of committing one of the largest person-to-person crypto thefts in U.S. history went on a brazen spending spree that included buying exotic cars and a $2 million wristwatch, renting mansions and running up nightclub tabs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89669,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89668\/revisions\/89669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}