Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by nodesocket on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @06:03PM (#19323896)

I am curious to know the OS on the laptop that was cracked. macOS, Linux, Windows? I would be surprised if a highly technically founder was running Windows.

Does this indicate there is a known vulnerability in the login process of the OS?

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Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by g45y45 on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @06:28PM (#19324059)

If i was to guess, i would guess that it was Bitlocker vuln, CVE-2018-12037, where the bitlocker crypto implementation is left to the junk SSD 'self encrypting' feature which is found to be broken. I have my doubts they cracked Veracrypt, LUKS or filevault2 with operator supplied keys. Or they got the keys from Microsoft/Apple (filevault2 and bitlocker will escrow the keys to the OS vendor in home editions).

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Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by nodesocket on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:04PM (#19324311)

So you think they broke the disk encryption not the OS login mechanism?

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