According to CoinMeta, crypto investor Evan Luthra has publicly disclosed for the first time his experience of being kidnapped in Oxford, UK, in November 2025. At that time, the private vehicle he was riding in suddenly turned onto a remote road, and five masked men broke into the car, assaulted him, and used Face ID to unlock his phone. Within about 30 minutes, they transferred over $1.5 million in crypto assets from his Binance account and around $600,000 from his Gate account. They also stole a watch worth approximately £450,000. Luthra stated that afterwards, exchanges such as Binance and MEXC assisted in freezing and recovering some of the funds, with Binance returning about $370,000. To date, nearly $1 million has been recovered in total. Several suspects have been arrested in this case, and the trial has been postponed to November 2027.