UNBELIEVABLE NEWS!
$3 million in forgotten Bitcoins recovered thanks to a brilliant hack
The famous hacker Joe Grand, known as 'Kingpin', managed to do the impossible: recover a lost password from a wallet with over $3 million in Bitcoins.
The owner had bought 43.6 bitcoins in 2013 for just $4 thousand dollars, and after more than a decade, his investment multiplied by 74,000%. The problem: he forgot the password.
Joe documented the entire process. He discovered that the software used to generate the password did so based on the system date.
So they did something clever: they changed the computer's date to the exact moment when the bitcoins were purchased. This way, the generator began to produce thousands of combinations until one matched.
After years of being locked out, access was recovered… and with it, millions of dollars that seemed lost forever.
