Technology @lemmy.world jeffw @lemmy.world 5mo ago

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

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

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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Pay wall 🖕
- 12ft.io works for Wired. Here's a link.
- Whenever I hit paywalled articles, I have Gemini summarize it for me. Here's what I got:
  
  This is an article about a flaw in a password manager. It discusses a man named Michael who lost access to his bitcoin wallet. The password manager he used generated a weak password. Researchers were able to crack the password because of this weakness. They used the date and time the password was created to guess it. Michael was able to recover his bitcoin wallet.
  
  Archive.today is way more energy-efficient and actually gives you the article details
  
  Good call. For the commenter above: https://archive.ph/nVy4s
- Just use an archive service lol

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