Several crypto investors, including streamer and content creator Kaitlyn ‘Amouranth’ Siragusa, have been targeted in a series of violent attacks by gangs attempting to access their crypto wallets.

Kaitlyn Saragusa, a well-known streamer and OnlyFans model known as Amouranth, was the victim of a violent home invasion by three armed attackers who demanded access to her cryptocurrency. The incident, which was recorded by security cameras, saw Saragusa physically assaulted and held at gunpoint before she managed to lead her assailants toward her husband, who confronted them with a firearm. One attacker was shot and all were later arrested and charged.

The attack on Saragusa is part of a broader increase in so-called 'wrench attacks' targeting individuals known to hold cryptocurrency. Experts attribute the rise to the perceived anonymity of crypto transactions, public displays of wealth, and the ease of gathering personal information online. Law enforcement agencies are responding by collaborating with private blockchain intelligence firms and pursuing stiff penalties for offenders.

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Kaitlyn Saragusa's attackers came under the cover of darkness, guns drawn with one demand. They point the gun at me from the hallway, and they tell me to stand up. And so I'm freaking out, and I'm standing up, and there's a chair over here. And so they kind of all come towards me, because there's three of them, and they corner me into the chair. And that's when they start, like, pistol-whipping me, you know, asking where the crypto is, holding me at gunpoint. Saragusa is a famous streamer and OnlyFans model known to her millions of followers as Amoreth. And while she's no crypto kingpin, she believes that a tweet nine months earlier alluding to her investments in crypto is what prompted the attack. So you're sitting there, and the three of them are, like, around you like this, sort of. Yeah. Masks on. Oh, yeah. Guns. And then one guy, is it here? Yeah. He was on this side of me, holding the gun to my head, and the other one was here, hitting me. What Saragusa's assailants didn't realize, the entire attack was being captured by surveillance cameras. And Kaitlyn wasn't alone. She called her husband Nick when the attack began, and he was listening to the entire frightening episode from another part of their home. I got to hear kind of all the dialogue that was happening, and then even them hitting her. I'm running over here. I go to the, you know, little safe thing I have here, and I type in my code, and then it pops open. I grab the handgun, and then I slip this on, grab this, and then I'm rushing downstairs. Fearing for her life, Saragusa decided to lead her attackers towards her husband. So at this point, you're up. What do you tell them? Like, oh, I remembered where it is. I'll take it to you, too. Like, it's so comical, honestly. It's in the pool. It's not in the pool. Stop playing. And so how does this, this is blood here. Yes. That was from my hand bleeding after it was touching, you know, it was my head dripped onto my hand. Surveillance footage captured Saragusa sprinting across her driveway, leading them to what she hopes is an ambush. Go, go, go, go. As soon as I turn the corner of these stairs, he's there waiting at the top, and he tells me to get down. And I'm about, like, right here when I do. I just hug the side of the wall. I fired three shots. I hit the guy once, I believe, in the lower abdomen area. Attacks on prominent crypto holders have been growing. Police say in May a man in New York was kidnapped, held hostage and tortured for three weeks by men trying to gain access to his Bitcoin account. He escaped with his life beaten, bloody and barefoot. That same month in France, gunmen ambushed the daughter and grandson of a French cryptocurrency boss, attempting to abduct them off the streets of Paris in broad daylight. And it's not just the crypto elite being targeted. In 2023, an elderly couple in North Carolina was held hostage by two men posing as construction workers. They zip-tied the couple before threatening to cut off the man's toes, genitalia, and rape his wife before making off with more than $150,000 in cryptocurrency. Both men were convicted, and Justice Department officials say the ringleader is now serving 47 years in prison for his involvement in a series of similar attacks. The other is awaiting sentencing. Ari Redbord is the global head of policy for TRM Labs. They're a blockchain intelligence firm that tracks wrench attacks. They issued a report this year analyzing wrench attacks and identified three key factors contributing to their rise. The perceived anonymity and irreversibility of cryptocurrency transactions, the public visibility of wealth, and the ease with which personal information can be gathered online. We've seen a spate of these recently, I think in part because you're seeing copycat type of activity. You know, one gang says, hey, we can do this, and then we can steal these funds and move them at the speed of the internet. And another kind of does the same. So these are the bullet holes, actually. And there's their blood still, where they were bleeding from. This is the blood from one of them being shot. So these are still the bullet holes. Yes. And some fragments. Kaitlin Saragusa and Nick Lee are now taking more precautions. They've hired private security and installed a 12-foot high steel fence around their property. As for her attackers, the man who was shot survived, and all have been arrested and charged in connection with the crime. The crypto thing now, there's a lot of concern over security for people who own crypto. Yeah. I would say if you have crypto and you're public about it, definitely make sure you live somewhere where you can have a gun. And with these attacks happening all across the world, law enforcement from every part of the world is trying to work together to prevent these from happening. One of the things that they're using, one of the tools, is that they're trying to work with private firms who know how to trace cryptocurrency, these blockchain tools they're called. And that is helping them in their investigations. Another thing that we're going to see a lot of in the future are prosecutions and stiff penalties for people who conduct this kind of attacks. Shimon Prokopes, CNN, San Antonio, Texas.

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