Police in Lincoln, Nebraska, are looking for a masked thief who stole an ATM in the early morning.
The reputation of digital currencies has been mixed with crime over the past year. Where the surge in the huge price of the young in late 2017 prompted many criminals to note the huge amounts of money associated with the digital currencies. Most of the physical criminal acts involving these currencies usually involve the theft of a person while carrying money for the purchase of the petkin or any other digital currency. However, one of the masked thieves in Lincoln, Nebraska, decided to go directly to the source and steal the ATM for the developers.
Theft in the early morning
The thief broke into the Mill Coffee and Tea shop in Haymarket, Lincoln. The criminal broke the glass door in the store around 3:30 am. As soon as he entered, he stole the money that was in the ATM machine for the developers. This ATM is owned by Alpha BTC, based in Omaha. The company's second digital currency ATM, and the first in Lincoln (with a population of 280,000). The device has been in service since late September 2017.
At present, the amount of stolen money has not been disclosed. Alpha BTC says that the device is used to buy and sell protein, but the vast majority of people use it to buy the product only.
Automated teller machines spread
There is no information on the extent of damage to the stolen ATM. But these devices are not cheap, Alpha BTC says that each machine costs between five and ten thousand dollars.
On the other hand, as people become more familiar with and more comfortable with digital currencies, the number of ATMs for these currencies increases. Where more than 6 machines are installed daily, and there are currently 3617 ATMs in operation.
Recently, one of them was installed at a European airport for the first time in Amsterdam. The bulk of ATMs are located in North America, but there are other areas that will enter the business area as well. Kenya received its first ATM in late June.
This theft is somewhat old. Security researchers have found, however, that malicious software is being sold on the dark Web, which enables hackers to use it to target ATMs for developers and carry out digital currency withdrawals. Digital currencies are really exciting, but it seems that crime will always be part of any new technological revolution.