{"id":18413,"date":"2024-11-08T09:45:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T07:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wonderfi-ceo-kidnapped-and-ransomed-for-1-million\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T09:45:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T07:45:53","slug":"wonderfi-ceo-kidnapped-and-ransomed-for-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wonderfi-ceo-kidnapped-and-ransomed-for-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"WonderFi CEO Kidnapped and Ransomed for $1 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Skurka, the CEO of Canadian cryptocurrency firm WonderFi, was kidnapped and later released after a ransom of $1 million was paid, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/kidnapping-toronto-businessman-cryptocurrency-1.7376679\">local media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in downtown Toronto on November 6 around 6:00 PM. Unknown assailants forced the businessman into a car and demanded money.<\/p>\n<p>Skurka transferred $1 million to the perpetrators. He was later found unharmed in Centennial Park in the Etobicoke district.<\/p>\n<p>In comments to the media, the victim stated that he is safe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Funds and customer data were not affected by this incident,&#8221; Skurka added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Further details are not being disclosed due to the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to internal statistics, in November 2023, WonderFi accounted for nearly half of all regulated exchanges operating in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Casa co-founder and <span data-descr=\"Chief Technology Officer\" class=\"old_tooltip\">CTO<\/span> Jameson Lopp stated that Skurka&#8217;s kidnapping is the 171st known case of physical violence aimed at stealing bitcoins.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the frequency of such incidents generally correlates with the price of bitcoin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;As prices rise, society becomes more aware of this issue, and as a result, more people with criminal tendencies decide it&#8217;s worth figuring out the return on investment of carrying out a physical attack on a known cryptocurrency holder,&#8221; he commented to the publication.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in August, Indian law enforcement <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kidnapping-linked-to-bitconnect-scandal-in-india\">arrested a man<\/a> suspected of kidnapping two employees of the collapsed BitConnect financial pyramid and extorting $125 million in cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Skurka, the CEO of Canadian cryptocurrency firm WonderFi, was kidnapped and later released after a ransom of $1 million was paid, according to local media. The incident occurred in downtown Toronto on November 6 around 6:00 PM. Unknown assailants forced the businessman into a car and demanded money. Skurka transferred $1 million to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[771,1154],"class_list":["post-18413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-canada","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}