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In France, one person has been indicted in connection with what investigators are calling a wrench attack targeting a crypto holder. Assailants reportedly posed as police officers in what authorities say is part of a troubling pattern of physical violence aimed at people known to hold digital assets. It's a reminder that in crypto, the threat isn't always on-screen.
Shifting to the corporate side of the ledger, BitMine Immersion Technologies, backed by analyst Tom Lee, has grown its Ethereum treasury to more than five point six million ETH, now valued at greater than ten billion dollars. The move came just ahead of the company's preferred share trading launch, signaling a deliberate bet that institutional Ethereum accumulation is a viable long-term strategy.
And pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic and Wegovy, has disclosed a breach of clinical trials data. The company says the information was pseudonymous and cannot be traced back to individual patients, but the incident raises pointed questions about how well the healthcare industry is protecting sensitive research infrastructure from increasingly sophisticated attackers.
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