Tech entrepreneur forced to drop crypto accounts password in home invasion

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Zaryn Dentzel, who co-founded Spanish tech startup Tuenti, said he was recently attacked in his home by a gang of thieves.

In February 2016, Dentzel and four of his friends co-founded the tech company which went on to create what was during the period 2009-2012 the most popular social network in Spain among young people. Today, Tuenti is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) owned by Telefónica.

According to a report by the Spanish daily El País published on November 3, Dentzel alleges that last Tuesday (November 2), he was attacked at his home in Madrid – including a penthouse near the Prado Museum – by “a group of hooded assailants. “

Here is the 38-year-old tech millionaire’s muddled tale of what happened that afternoon. This incident started around 3 p.m. and lasted a few hours. He was at home with a visiting maintenance engineer when the doorbell rang and after opening the front door, “four out of five” hooded men entered his house, covered the security cameras and his eyes ( as well as those of the maintenance technician), then started beating him. Police confirmed they found a small knife on Dentzel’s chest.

The El País report says that according to Dentzel, he was tortured by the gang because they wanted “to get the keys to his accounts and his electronic wallets”.

Although in his first report to the police, it appears that Dentzel claimed that he believed his Bitcoin fortune was stolen, according to his second report to the police on November 3, he apparently said that the thieves did not. could not access it. to his bitcoins.

The Spanish newspaper added that the Madrid National Police had resumed the investigation, which so far has not resulted in any arrests.

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