Israeli Tourists Robbed of $700K in Costa Rica Bitcoin Heist

[Manna]

Israeli tourists reportedly robbed of nearly $700,000 in Bitcoin heist in Costa Rica  About 15 tourists have been affected.  Police are still investigating the incident and trying to identify the suspects.  Tourists are advised to be cautious to be safe from such incidents.
It's true

[Z-tight]

But if they have decent computer or Bitcoin knowledge, they could try finding written mnemonic words or brute-force wallet on your electronic device.

That would be an almost impossible task if the victim has a very good crypto opsec, if you break into my home, it would take you forever to find my seed phrase and we are talking about criminals that have to operate very quickly and leave.

It is also impossible to brute-force ones password if they have a very strong password, so there is a high chance that the criminals will get nothing if they kill the person dey came to steal BTC from. They have to kidnap the person and torture them into giving them the info they need.

[iBaba]

I don't think so, cryptocurrencies may have been part of a business deal that was made and something happened that led to this tragic accident. No matter how much I love cryptocurrencies, I would not travel to Costa Rica with a wallet containing 1 Bitcoin.

We learn everyday and it's quite disturbing to hear about this incident. I wonder what has happened to the anonymity in Bitcoin transactions over the Bitcoin owners that got to the point of robbers attacking tourists and stealing them off their bitcoins. Could it also be that the tourists have continously flaunted their BTC online to the point of being noticed by the robbers or maybe they had some illegal business transactions that backfired. Because I can't fathom how the armed robbers were able to identify the bitcoin owners when they weren't flaunting it at the crime scene.

[GigaBit]

The biggest question is why would someone carry 10+ BTC with them if they are also going to a country known for crime? Maybe this happened because one of them posted something on social networks, and maybe they really paid something with BTC in that country and thus drew attention to themselves.

However, there is another option that should not be ignored, and that is that one of the "friends" knew about all this money and decided to use this trip to rob a friend - and when it comes to so much money, nothing should be surprising.

The next time you want to tell someone that you own cryptocurrencies, remember what kind of risk you are putting yourself in, such things are not discussed with friends and acquaintances.

The main purpose of using Bitcoin is to keep assets safe. It is a decentralized platform where no one knows how many bitcoins they have and it will always remain anonymous. But when a person is informed about bitcoins one has to think that he/she is destroying the security of his/her own bitcoins. Every friend or relative should hide the matter completely to give maximum security to your assets or else there is a possibility of losing them at any time. You need to take responsibility for your own security while using Bitcoin, otherwise there is no point in using Bitcoin.

[Ujok]

This news is very scary, from this incident we must learn that we must be careful in storing our assets so that other people do not know about it so that we can avoid terrible dangers. We must install sophisticated security and must have private wallets because now there are many thieves who are targeting bitcoin investors, why do they target bitcoin investors because the price of bitcoin is high and stealing them is not difficult as described above.

[bayu7adi]

The biggest question is why would someone carry 10+ BTC with them if they are also going to a country known for crime? Maybe this happened because one of them posted something on social networks, and maybe they really paid something with BTC in that country and thus drew attention to themselves.

It is also possible.. where when someone shows off the money they have, they could be targeted by robbers... but there is something else that could happen in such an incident... such as when a robber forces to take the victim's cellphone, then checks what applications are on the victim's cellphone... when they find an application related to cryptocurrency, such as an exchange, telegram bot, crypto wallet or others... then the robber spontaneously realizes that the user must have a cryptocurrency balance... from there the threat will start to be used as the most effective action to seize all the victim's cryptocurrency assets....

In addition to not showing off on social media, we should also limit other people's knowledge that we have cryptocurrency... don't let our friends be the masterminds behind the robbery. Keeping our cryptocurrency a secret is probably one of the best ways for us to avoid such problems.

[Faisal2202]

Only consolation is that they were not killed by this gangs, unfortunately, they've lost the money already. And I do agree, this is the very example of somewhat setting this tourists to get robbed there.

There can be many consolations as things can get worse I know what can be so bad than getting killed but some prefer respect and other stuff over their lives. It's really unfortunate how these tourists get robbed when I read the headline I thought they were robbed outside but the image you have shared shows otherwise they were robbed inside the home I think.

That's so planned and to be very honest it is an inside job because how can these robbers know that these tourists have BTC? Well, if they have used it in some store or some restaurant or anywhere to pay the bills then they should not have done it while they are in another region they aren't aware of. We should not show our BTC to public until it gets highly adopted.