Stories that sound absurd but it does happen. This is one of the main reasons why you have to remain low-key and keep your information private as much as possible. An unfortunate event but the miner is still lucky compared to other victims who were deleted because of their involvement in crypto.
It is until the miner in question freed, or gains his freedom from the kidnappers before we can truly consider him lucky, for there have been instances where the kidnapped or the victim still end up being killed, even after he or the family members must have paid the ransom the kidnappers requested for, this have happened on several occasions here in my country..
So. For me, I think I can only consider the kidnapped victim to be lucky only when he manages to pay the ransom, and he is set free while alive and still healthy.
Over all, I agree with you though, keeping our private information private, most especially in the area finance is very important, there are alot of hardship in various places of the world today, many will do anything to make money, even if they have to kill or betray their brother or friend, they will do it with pleasures, this is why we much not completely trust people around us to let them in on all that we do for a living, or how much we earn, this is the same as selling oneself out.