A man has managed to regain access to his Bitcoin wallet containing $3 million after being locked out of it for more than a decade.
The owner of the crypto wallet had, quite sensibly, put a randomly generated password on the wallet.
However, not so sensibly, he managed to lose the password, locking himself out of his own crypto wallet.
Desperate to get his hands back on his 43.6 Bitcoin, he reached out to a hacker who was able to help.
Joe Grand and his team were able to recover the Bitcoin thanks to a flaw in a version of the Roboform password manager used to generate the secure password a decade ago.
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A man has managed to regain access to his Bitcoin wallet containing $3 million after being locked out of it for more than a decade.
The owner of the crypto wallet had, quite sensibly, put a randomly generated password on the wallet.
However, not so sensibly, he managed to lose the password, locking himself out of his own crypto wallet.
Desperate to get his hands back on his 43.6 Bitcoin, he reached out to a hacker who was able to help.
Joe Grand and his team were able to recover the Bitcoin thanks to a flaw in a version of the Roboform password manager used to generate the secure password a decade ago.