Scottish man jailed 8 years for plotting $2.7M crypto theft from prison

The headline sentence is less telling than the mechanics: a serving prisoner allegedly directing a home invasion to install remote-access software shows how physical coercion and consumer tools, not code exploits, remain the practical attack surface for crypto holders. The doorbell camera failure is the detail worth noting — detection, not prevention, broke the chain. What matters now is whether sentencing of all three participants signals courts treating crypto theft as comparable to cash robbery, and whether the remote-access vector prompts operational changes at smaller crypto firms. Whether similar prison-orchestrated plots surface is the open question.