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Mother of Olympics TV host kidnapped for bitcoin ransom

Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped on February 1 and her family now face paying a $6M BTC ransom.

Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko was extradited from Ireland to the US for allegedly using Conti to extort $500K from victims in Tennessee.

K9 Finance offered a low-ball bounty for the return of tokens stolen in the ShibaSwap hack, but the hacker wants 10 times the initial offer.

News of the fictitious bounty fooled news outlets into reporting that $50K would be paid for information on two Qilin administrators.

Coinbase countered the blackmail attempt by announcing a bounty for anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of the attackers.