Cold wallet + multi-signature + physical isolation—this old, overused talk may sound redundant, but it really can save lives. If this family had split their holdings across separate wallets, they wouldn’t have been wiped out in one go of 8 million.

Texas brothers Isiah Angelo Garcia and Raymond Christian Garcia have admitted to armed intrusion into a Minnesota home in 2025 and stealing over $8 million in cryptocurrency. The U.S. Department of Justice states that the two traveled from Texas to Minnesota to commit the crime, binding and armed controlling the victims' family for over 8 hours, forcing them to transfer crypto assets. Both men pleaded guilty to a charge of interfering with commercial activity through robbery, facing up to 20 years of federal imprisonment, and agreed to pay over $8 million in restitution. (Decrypt)