“He put me in play”: before the Ledger affair, the influencer Crypto Owen Simonin was also attacked

“I am no longer really surprised. “When we contact Owen Simonin on this Thursday in the middle of the day, the entrepreneur, influencer and Crypto speaker, better known by the pseudonym” Hasheur “, is already aware of the kidnapping and then of the Liberation of David Balland, Co -founder of Ledger, by attackers who demanded a ransom. “In less than four weeks, it’s still the third case of this kind,” he continues.

Just before Christmas, the wife of a Belgian Magnat des Cryptos, which had just been removed, was released after an incredible chase near Bruges. And on December 31, it was the father of an crypto influencer based in Dubai who was removed in the Ain before being found the next day at Le Mans (Sarthe), in the trunk of a car, covered with blue and Having, during a police check.

Owen Simonin also had a traumatic experience when the Youtubeur – which has more than 700,000 subscribers today – has seen a man, a weapon in hand, has landed in his home. “My apartment was also the headquarters of my company and therefore my personal address ended up on a legal information site on companies,” he explains. One of my subscribers found him, observed me for a few days in the parking lot and one evening, he took a gun, came to ring at my place and put me in play. »»

A bodyguard during public appearances

The attacker eventually runs away after Owen Simonin melted on him. He even goes to the police a few days later, and the weapon will prove to be a false. “Hasheur” was left for a beautiful fright who upset his vision of things. “We are a target. I was already aware of being potentially for people who think that you can free a lot of money quickly and easily. But I had not implemented specific measures, ”he decrypts today.

“I reworked a lot of aspects of my security by imagining the worst to better warn it,” he sums up. For example, in public events, I always try to be accompanied by someone discreet and trained to intervene if necessary. »Increased tools and vigilance that have a cost. But the Ledger affair proves him right. And he hopes it will be an electroshock for the whole crypto sphere.