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Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) are suspected of kidnapping a foreign citizen to demand a ransom. To save himself from threats and torture, the man paid the kidnappers 7.5 Bitcoins.

In Kaliningrad, Russia, criminals kidnapped a man in broad daylight to get their hands on his cryptocurrency holdings. In the process, they beated something like $523,000 in cryptocurrency out of him. Literally.

More than 69% of banking institutions in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) could miss opportunities in the financial market over the next 24 months if they do not embrace digital transformation. Currently, only 19% of them are making efforts to keep up with technological advances.