𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗦 𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗦 "𝗝𝗢𝗘 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗"

Legendary hacker Joe Grand, also known as Kingpin, recently recovered $3 million from a lost $BTC Bitcoin software wallet. Michael, a German user, had purchased bitcoins in 2013 and stored the password using #RoboForm , a password generator. Unfortunately, the password file became corrupted, leaving him unable to access his growing wealth.

In 2020, Michael sought help from Joe Grand, who initially declined, citing the immense difficulty of cracking the complex password. But with persistence, Grand and his colleague Bruno revisited the case. They found a loophole in an older version of Roboform, realizing that passwords generated before 2015 were not truly random.

Using “hacking time,” they manipulated Roboform’s randomness based on the date the password was created. After testing millions of combinations, they eventually managed to recover $1.6 million worth of Bitcoin passwords. Michael’s value would double by mid-2024.