{"id":86211,"date":"2023-10-26T10:08:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T07:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=86211"},"modified":"2025-09-13T04:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:06:27","slug":"unciphered-proposes-to-crack-the-ripple-ex-ctos-wallet-containing-7002-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/unciphered-proposes-to-crack-the-ripple-ex-ctos-wallet-containing-7002-btc\/","title":{"rendered":"Unciphered proposes to crack the Ripple ex-CTO\u2019s wallet containing 7,002 BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The digital-asset recovery firm Unciphered, in an open letter<\/a>, proposed unlocking the wallet belonging to former Ripple chief technology officer Stefan Thomas. It holds 7,002 BTC (about $244 million at the time of writing).<\/p>\n

In 2021, Thomas told<\/a> of losing access to the address. According to the programmer, he lost the password sheet for the IronKey hardware wallet several years ago \u2014 there are only two password attempts remaining.<\/p>\n

According to Unciphered, the firm\u2019s staff developed a method to crack the hardware and access the Bitcoin keys. The technology journal Wired \u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0438\u043b<\/a> that the company was able to access data on a similar IronKey after \u201c200 trillion attempts\u201d to bypass the limit on the number of incorrect passwords.<\/p>\n

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“Hacking secured hardware is difficult. Hacking a device that meets the requirements of FIPS-140-2 Level 3 (for example, your IronKey) borders on impossible,” the company said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nevertheless, Unciphered asserted that it could crack the wallet of the former Ripple CTO, and pledged to provide evidence of the process.<\/p>\n

Earlier in January 2021, a Reddit user restored<\/a> access to a wallet with 127 BTC that had been lost for several years.<\/p>\n

Later it emerged that a resident of South Africa lost<\/a> access to a wallet mined 10 years ago with 20 BTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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