In the latest in a string of violent crypto robberies, a four-person gang held a Canadian family hostage overnight and stole about $2 million CAD ($1.6 million USD) in Bitcoin. The attackers threatened to kill the family, waterboarded the mother and father, and sexually assaulted their daughter after invading their Vancouver-area home.

The crime occurred in April 2024, but the details of the scene were revealed last week in a sentencing report by a British Columbia judge, first reported by CBC. Tsz Wing Boaz Chan, a 35 year-old resident of Hong Kong, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering, unlawful confinement, and sexual assault. The court document did not reveal the identity of the family.

“After restraining the family, the men took their cell phones and laptop computers and demanded

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