Hyundai evacuates offices after bomb threat demanding Bitcoin

Source: PortaldoBitcoin Original Title: Hyundai evacuates offices after bomb threat and Bitcoin demand Original Link: Two group buildings located in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, were evacuated after a man threatened to blow up the buildings and demanded 13 bitcoins, equivalent to about 1.1 million dollars (600 million reais ).

According to local media reports, the threatener called the South Korean police on Friday morning, detailing the plan and demanding a ransom to be paid in Bitcoin.

“If you don't give me 13 bitcoins, I will blow up the group building at 11:30 AM and then detonate the bomb at Yangcai Cave,” the man claimed.

These buildings were evacuated and searched by special forces, but no explosives were found.

This is the most recent in a series of bomb threats targeting South Korean companies over the past week. According to reports, the Samsung Electronics building was a target on Thursday, while a South Korean telecom company received a similar threat on Wednesday. It is unclear whether there were any Bitcoin ransom demands in the previous cases.

History Repeats Itself

This is not the first record of bomb threats involving the group demanding a ransom in Bitcoin.

In 2020, an incident occurred in Japan where an individual threatened to place bombs in a church and a school, demanding 40 bitcoins. Prior to this, a global bomb threat in 2018 requested payment in bitcoins, which drew the attention of the U.S. National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center.

As Bitcoin hits new highs, violent incidents surrounding the crypto market continue to occur. “Ransom attacks” ( have seen an increase in criminals attempting to force victims to hand over cryptocurrency, with over 65 cases recorded in a public database maintained by Casa's CTO Jameson Lopp.

In November, a Russian man detonated a gas grenade and activated a smoke bomb inside a cryptocurrency exchange in St. Petersburg. In the same week, an individual impersonated a delivery person in San Francisco, stealing $11 million in cryptocurrency after kidnapping the homeowner.

At the beginning of this month, Austrian police arrested two individuals suspected of beating a young man in the back seat of a car and setting him on fire. According to authorities, greed may have been the motive for the crime due to withdrawals made from the victim's crypto wallet.