Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.
A $3 Million Crypto Wallet… A $2 Million Crypto Wallet… A $5.5 Million Crypto Wallet…
(This joke probably doesn’t work anymore, but I still think it’s funny.)
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o5IySpAkThg Here’s the YouTube video about it
Password generator used the date/time to create the password. It was fixed a long time ago.
A $3 Million Crypto Wallet… A $2 Million Crypto Wallet… A $5.5 Million Crypto Wallet…
(This joke probably doesn’t work anymore, but I still think it’s funny.)
I tried to tell them it was: “Password123”.
They scoffed at me and never tried it.
To be clear, this is a flaw in RoboForm
“Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager”
Yes, cheers for that.
I mean, they say it was fixed shortly after he made his password. It was a flaw until 2015
Pay wall 🖕