{"id":93844,"date":"2026-10-02T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/crypto-thieves-attack-man-in-home-and-threaten-pregnant-wife-in-horrific-robbery-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:44:36","slug":"crypto-thieves-attack-man-in-home-and-threaten-pregnant-wife-in-horrific-robbery-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/crypto-thieves-attack-man-in-home-and-threaten-pregnant-wife-in-horrific-robbery-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto thieves attack man in home and threaten pregnant wife in &#8216;horrific&#8217; robbery | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A businessman was beaten with hammers by masked men who broke into his home and threatened to kill his heavily <!--more--> pregnant wife unless he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the BBC, the couple, who want to remain anonymous, described the attack as &#8220;horrific&#8221; and said they feared for their unborn baby&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers left in a car driven by a getaway driver after the man transferred his crypto savings.<\/p>\n<p>Crimestoppers are offering a \u00a310,000 reward for information in the attack, which was captured on home security footage and is being investigated by the police.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say it is one of a growing type of violent theft known as a &#8220;wrench attack&#8221; targeting cryptocurrency investors.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Cryptocurrency #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A businessman was beaten with hammers by masked men who broke into his home and threatened to kill his heavily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}