this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
43 points (100.0% liked)

World News

1091 readers
612 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be a decent person
  2. No spam
  3. Add the byline, or write a line or two in the body about the article.

Other communities of interest:

founded 7 months ago
MODERATORS
Deceptichum@quokk.au
Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
43
Father of crypto entrepreneur rescued from kidnappers after having finger severed (edition.cnn.com)
submitted 4 days ago by OutForARip@lemmy.ca to c/world@quokk.au
2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"entrepreneur" is carrying a heavy load here.

[โ€“] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

They didn't even mention what the business was because the identity of the victim is not released. The article mentions a similar attack on a seller of hardware wallets:

cofounder of the crypto wallet company Ledger

Just because something is crypto related doesn't mean it isn't a real business.