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It is extremely underrated. People don't know how bad it is and for how little criminals are ready to cut off a finger/kidnap you.
Even if you don't die - you don't want to suffer the experience of feeling hopeless at an armed gang set out to make you suffer.
The biggest concern is how easily trace-able it is, and will become, with AI-assisted tooling.
A sufficiently motivated criminal group can pretty easily:
  1. Collect publicly-available leaked exchange data (e.g the big Coinbase leak). They now know the rough size of your stack, as well as email/name (potentially address).
  • 1a. they could also just bribe internal employees for data, this is an on-going concern, as your data is never deleted. Once you have bought off a KYC exchange, you can assume that data will leak in time.
  1. Cross-match email with any other data breach off any e-commerce website. They now know your personal address where you ship orders to.
  2. 👋🔧
Further, the KYC exchange data (e-mail, name, address, phone) can all be cross-linked with various other breaches to get an AI-assisted similarity score to try and guess which details belong to the same person. In other words - it doesn't have to be 1-to-1. Maybe you re-used the phone on another website which has your same name but different e-mail - there's reason to conclude you own that e-mail too. Maybe they verify that e-mail in 10 other websites belonging to the same name, but also a new number in some places. Maybe they verify the email and new number consistently map to a new address.
It is safe to assume that sufficiently-motivated black-hat actors contain resources consisting of all of your online activity. The criminal groups don't even need to be advanced - they can just purchase the bundle of email/address off of the black-hat actors and then they have your information.
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