Digital asset recovery firm Unciphered in open letter offered to unlock a wallet belonging to former Ripple technical director Stefan Thomas. It stores 7002 BTC (~$244 million at the time of writing).
In 2021, Thomas spoke about losing access to the address. According to the programmer, he lost the sheet with the password for the IronKey hardware wallet several years ago – there were only two attempts left to enter the password.
According to Unciphered, the company’s employees have developed a method for hacking equipment and accessing Bitcoin keys. Technology magazine Wired reportedthat the firm was able to access data on a similar IronKey after “200 trillion attempts” to bypass the limit on the number of incorrect passwords.
However, Unciphered assured that they would be able to hack the wallet of the ex-CTO of Ripple, and promised to provide evidence of the process.
In January 2021, a Reddit user regained access to a wallet with 127 BTC that had been lost several years ago.
Later it became known that a resident of South Africa lost access to a wallet with 20 BTC mined 10 years ago.
Source: Cryptocurrency
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