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Criminals in France are now targeting crypto holders' families instead of the holders themselves. In 2024, a French tax official allegedly stole detailed dossiers on high-net-worth crypto holders and sold them to criminal networks. Names, home addresses, phone numbers, exact holdings. The lists spread through organised crime circles. Then in January 2026, French authorities made the tax case public, and crypto tax platform Waltio disclosed a separate breach of 50,000 users. Attack frequency immediately jumped from 1.9 incidents per month to 4.6. Chainalysis just published its mid-year report, and the France numbers are not good at all. 19 violent crypto attacks in all of 2025. Already 30 publicly known cases in just the first half of 2026. French Interior Minister says the real number is over 70. The attacks have spread from Paris to Marseille, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Grenoble, and small communes that had never seen anything remotely like this.