================================================================================================ CASE 198 | Coinflip ATM | December 3, 2024 | Australia ================================================================================================ DATABASE RECORD id 198 date December 3, 2024 original_date December 3, 2024 year 2024 month 12 quarter 2024-Q4 victim Coinflip ATM location Melbourne, Australia country Australia scenario Armed Robbery in Public Space description Crypto ATM stolen from shopping center. kidnappings 0 violence_torture 0 drugs_alcohol 0 weapons 0 theft 1 life_taken 0 money_wanted unknown coin_type (null) reports 9News notes burglars took an damaged atms has_processed_date 1 created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45 (flag legend: 'kidnappings' is the DETENTION flag — 1 when the victim was held against their will at any point, tied, locked in, held at gunpoint or taken away; it is NOT the same as the 'Kidnapping' scenario, which means taken away and held. 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AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources] **Victim:** Coinflip ATM **Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators **Attack Method:** Armed Robbery in Public Space **Violence Used:** Threats/intimidation **Crypto Stolen:** unknown **Status:** Investigation ongoing LINKED SOURCES [url] https://www.9news.com.au/national/police-hunt-crypto-atm-thieves-in-melbourne-shopping-centre-ram-raid-mickleham/8e7b6106-ab8c-4374-82b5-76f147c42da8 NOTES ON THIS FILE * matched to sheet row 199: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARTICLE 1 Source 9News URL https://www.9news.com.au/national/police-hunt-crypto-atm-thieves-in-melbourne-shopping-centre-ram-raid-mickleham/8e7b6106-ab8c-4374-82b5-76f147c42da8 Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 199, column "Articles" Length 1,706 chars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Police hunt crypto ATM thieves in Melbourne shopping centre ram raid By Eleanor Wilson2:30pm Dec 3, 2024/ Police hunt crypto ATM thieves in Melbourne shopping centre ram raid Police are on the hunt for a pair of thieves who escaped with a cryptocurrency ATM after a ram raid at a shopping centre in Melbourne's northern suburbs this morning.Police allege a stolen Toyota Ute rammed the front doors of Merrifield City shopping centre in Mickleham just after 4am, before reversing into two ATM machines inside.CCTV vision exclusively obtained by 9News shows one of the men, dressed in bright orange, using a sledge hammer to knock a Coinflip Bitcoin ATM to the ground.CCTV captured the men dragging the ATM out of the Mickleham shopping centre. (Nine)The pair then ditched the Toyota when the machine proved too heavy to lift onto the back tray and instead dragged it out by hand, fleeing the scene in a dark-coloured sedan with the Coinflip ATM.Police will allege the thieves then dumped the ATM in a Coolaroo car park, before setting it alight.The Coinflip ATM, which allow users to buy and sell crypto using cash, had been pried open.Coinflip ATMs are used to trade cash for Bitcoin. (Nine) YOU MAY ALSO LIKE Crypto expert Steve Sammartino said crypto machines do not have the same security measures as conventional ATMS, which could have aided the thieves."The crypto machines aren't as robust as typical ATMs which are issued via banks," Sammartino said."Not all of them have dye bombs so that the money is unusable after they're broken into."The Coinflip ATM was found pried open and alight in a Coolaroo car park. (Nine)The offenders remain on the run and the sedan has not been located at this stage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [AUTO-TRIMMED — UNREVIEWED] !! Furniture was cut by a script keyed on this case's record, not by a person. !! It may still carry passages about OTHER cases from a round-up article. !! The full page extract is kept in staging/ if a cut needs revisiting. Source 9news.com.au URL https://www.9news.com.au/national/police-hunt-crypto-atm-thieves-in-melbourne-shopping-centre-ram-raid-mickleham/8e7b6106-ab8c-4374-82b5-76f147c42da8 Field url Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:49:39+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200) Language unknown Kept paragraphs headline [0] + 1-11 of 16 Length 1,545 chars Integrity sha256 99b8ff04f2d72b6cdca97b60c0c815eb43e8e94a52371c5c144d78e2b5bf8897 Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 1-11 plus headline [0]; dropped 0 leading and 4 trailing paragraphs. Case-term hits on page: 5. Caveat retrieved from a live page on the date above. Unlike text copied from the spreadsheet, there is no second copy to hash it against. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved) Mickleham news: Shopping centre CCTV captures thieves in Bitcoin ATM ram raid | Nine.com.au Police are on the hunt for a pair of thieves who escaped with a cryptocurrency ATM after a ram raid at a shopping centre in Melbourne's northern suburbs this morning. Police allege a stolen Toyota Ute rammed the front doors of Merrifield City shopping centre in Mickleham just after 4am, before reversing into two ATM machines inside. CCTV vision exclusively obtained by 9News shows one of the men, dressed in bright orange, using a sledge hammer to knock a Coinflip Bitcoin ATM to the ground. The pair then ditched the Toyota when the machine proved too heavy to lift onto the back tray and instead dragged it out by hand, fleeing the scene in a dark-coloured sedan with the Coinflip ATM. Police will allege the thieves then dumped the ATM in a Coolaroo car park, before setting it alight. The Coinflip ATM, which allow users to buy and sell crypto using cash, had been pried open. Crypto expert Steve Sammartino said crypto machines do not have the same security measures as conventional ATMS, which could have aided the thieves. "The crypto machines aren't as robust as typical ATMs which are issued via banks," Sammartino said. "Not all of them have dye bombs so that the money is unusable after they're broken into." The offenders remain on the run and the sedan has not been located at this stage. Anyone who witnessed the ram-raid or the fire, has dashcam/CCTV footage or information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. ================================================================================================ generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 198 ================================================================================================