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How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet

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How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

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Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.

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