================================================================================================ CASE 101 | Liquor Store | October 7, 2021 | USA ================================================================================================ DATABASE RECORD id 101 date October 7, 2021 original_date October 7, 2021 year 2021 month 10 quarter 2021-Q4 victim Liquor Store location South Bay, California country USA scenario Armed Robbery in Public Space description Thieves Break Into Liquor Store to Steal Bitcoin ATM kidnappings 0 violence_torture 0 drugs_alcohol 0 weapons 0 theft 1 life_taken 0 money_wanted (null) coin_type Bitcoin (ATM) reports NBC Bay Area notes Unclear if they were armed - they robbed a liquor store Bitcoin ATM by wrapping a cord around it and pulling it out of the building with a vehicle 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:** Liquor Store **Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators **Attack Method:** Armed Robbery in Public Space **Violence Used:** Threats/intimidation **Crypto Stolen:** Undisclosed amount of Bitcoin (ATM) **Status:** Investigation ongoing LINKED SOURCES [url] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/thieves-break-into-silicon-valley-liquor-store-to-steal-bitcoin-atm/2677196/ NOTES ON THIS FILE * matched to sheet row 102: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARTICLE 1 Source NBC Bay Area URL https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/thieves-break-into-silicon-valley-liquor-store-to-steal-bitcoin-atm/2677196/ Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 102, column "Articles" Length 1,929 chars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thieves Break Into Silicon Valley Liquor Store to Steal Bitcoin ATM By Scott Budman and Kristofer Noceda • Published October 8, 2021 • Updated on October 8, 2021 at 9:09 pm Thieves broke into a liquor store in the South Bay Thursday and stole a crypto currency machine — and it was all caught on surveillance video. Scott Budman reports. Surveillance video from a Silicon Valley liquor store shows thieves taking off with a Bitcoin ATM. The store owner tells NBC Bay Area the incident occurred at 4:50 a.m. Thursday. Video obtained by NBC Bay Area appears to show the Bitcoin ATM wrapped with a cord and tied to the back of a white van outside the liquor store. The van then drives forward to pull the machine through the front of the store, knocking out a front door. scott budman Police said they are reviewing the surveillance video and are investigating. No other information was available on the incident. Bitcoin ATMs have popped up across the United States over the past year. The machine allows customers to buy or sell the digital currency, and sometimes extract cash, according to a Reuters report on the growing popularity of Bitcoin ATMs. Brazen Burglary: Silicon Valley Bitcoin ATM Theft NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke with Business and Tech Reporter Scott Budman about the brazen burglary at a Sunnyvale liquor store. "Honestly, if I was going after Bitcoin and trying to steal it, I would hack instead," said Caroline Chen, a business professor at San Jose State University. "Because then I know I can steal millions of dollars of Bitcoin in one fell swoop, instead of the ATM at the local convenience store that has $200 of actual cash in it." There are now over 48,000 Bitcoin ATMs across the nation, according to independent research site howmanybitcoinatms.com. Meanwhile, Bitcoin this week bounced back by topping $55,000, CNBC reported. It marked the highest level for the cryptocurrency since mid-May. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 nbcbayarea.com URL https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/thieves-break-into-silicon-valley-liquor-store-to-steal-bitcoin-atm/2677196/ Field url Retrieved 2026-09-05T13:30:54+00:00 via Wayback Machine snapshot 20260211201130, deterministic extraction (HTTP None) Language unknown Kept paragraphs headline [0] + 8-14 of 19 Length 1,182 chars Integrity sha256 9ec641137a5795ef3f381d47b78361c3741870ba10ae6698b63d1c5eafb4bca7 Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 8-14 plus headline [0]; dropped 7 leading and 4 trailing paragraphs. Case-term hits on page: 23. Note live URL was ERROR on the first pass; text comes from an archived copy dated 2026-02-11 Archive http://web.archive.org/web/20260211201130/https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/thieves-break-into-silicon-valley-liquor-store-to-steal-bitcoin-atm/2677196/ Caveat retrieved from a Wayback Machine snapshot, not the live page. The snapshot date is in the method line; the live URL was unreadable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved) Thieves Break Into Silicon Valley Liquor Store to Steal Bitcoin ATM – NBC Bay Area Police said they are reviewing the surveillance video and are investigating. No other information was available on the incident. Bitcoin ATMs have popped up across the United States over the past year. The machine allows customers to buy or sell the digital currency, and sometimes extract cash, according to a Reuters report on the growing popularity of Bitcoin ATMs. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke with Business and Tech Reporter Scott Budman about the brazen burglary at a Sunnyvale liquor store. "Honestly, if I was going after Bitcoin and trying to steal it, I would hack instead," said Caroline Chen, a business professor at San Jose State University. "Because then I know I can steal millions of dollars of Bitcoin in one fell swoop, instead of the ATM at the local convenience store that has $200 of actual cash in it." There are now over 48,000 Bitcoin ATMs across the nation, according to independent research site howmanybitcoinatms.com. Meanwhile, Bitcoin this week bounced back by topping $55,000, CNBC reported. It marked the highest level for the cryptocurrency since mid-May. ================================================================================================ generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 101 ================================================================================================