Restoration agency proposes cracking former Ripple CTO's $244M Bitcoin exhausting drive

An organization is petitioning former chief expertise officer Stefan Thomas for a tough drive containing greater than 7,000 (BTC) that he has been unable to entry for years.

In an Oct. 25 open letter, crypto restoration agency Unciphered supplied to unlock an IronKey exhausting drive belonging to Thomas containing 7,002 BTC — roughly $244 million on the time of publication. The previous Ripple CTO forgot the data to entry the drive, designed to erase its information if a person enters the wrong password ten occasions. Thus far, the German-born programmer has used eight out of his ten makes an attempt.

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