French authorities logged 90 crypto-related kidnapping, extortion, threat and violent-theft cases in just over seven months of 2026. The Interior Ministry figure, given to Cointelegraph, triples Chainalysis's public count, and more than 40% of the French incidents Chainalysis tracked hit holders' relatives or acquaintances.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives35
- Confidence55
BasedApp's leak of passports tied to wallets bolsters the case against HMRC's crypto record demands
BasedApp said a breach exposed passport numbers and home addresses linked to customer wallets, without saying how many of its 100,000-plus users were hit. The leak gives Recap a live example in its fight against HMRC's draft power to demand crypto records without tribunal approval.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives55
- Confidence45
Deblock, Lyzi and Waltio executives want France to tax crypto-to-stablecoin swaps, ending a 2019 rule that defers tax until holders cash out or spend. They argue the deferral leaves money parked in stablecoins and slows the build-out of French payment infrastructure.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives75
- Confidence55
FBI memo tells every employee to treat their personal data as stolen after the FBIjobs.gov breach
FBI told staff in an internal memo to assume hacking group ShinyHunters stole data on every employee after a claimed 2 to 3 terabyte breach of FBIjobs.gov. Until the bureau confirms the scale, staff and the job applicants the hackers say are also in the files have reason to treat their home addresses as exposed.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence40
Meria's Owen Simonin ties a wave of calls impersonating Binance and his own support desk to France's pile-up of data leaks. The state cyber agency was already recording the same script in January, before the DGFiP intrusion.
Reality
- Evidence47
- Adoption44
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives68
- Confidence55