How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by tiborsaas on Friday April 03, 2020 @08:08PM (#22775096)

Attacking the wetware would have been worthy try :) Would hypnosis work to recover the forgotten password?

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Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by metaweta on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:30PM (#22775466)

He actually tried that without success.

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Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by ur-whale on Saturday April 04, 2020 @02:55AM (#22776692)

Any reason why a dictionary based attack wasn't tried first?

Or did your client remember selecting something really hard in the first place?

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Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by metaweta on Saturday April 04, 2020 @10:56AM (#22778560)

Yeah, he knew it was a long passphrase.

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