In the quiet hum of a San Francisco morning, a routine knock at the door quickly turned into a nightmare of coercion and irreversible loss, as a man posing as a harmless delivery driver gained entry to a home in the Mission Dolores neighborhood through the simple ploy of requesting a signature to receive a package.

What followed was a brazen escalation with a gun drawn, duct tape binding the resident, and demands that included unlocking access to $11 million worth of crypto assets. The victim, known only as Joshua in an initial report from the San Francisco Chronicle , survived with some nondescript injuries, while the thief vanished.

While crypto hacks from a distance over the internet are rather common, this was a more troubling and physical home invasion for the purpose of t

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