Cryptocurrency recovery company Unciphered has offered to help former Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas unlock an IronKey hard drive containing 7,002 Bitcoin worth $244 million at current prices.
Thomas infamously forgot the password to access the drive, which has a limit of 10 incorrect attempts before the data is erased. So far, he has tried unsuccessfully 8 times to unlock the wallet.
Keypoints
- Cryptocurrency recovery firm Unciphered has offered to help former Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas recover 7,002 Bitcoin worth $244 million locked in an IronKey hard drive.
- Thomas forgot the password to unlock the drive and has already made 8 unsuccessful attempts to access it. He has only 2 attempts left before the drive erases all data.
- Unciphered claims they can bypass the 10-attempt limit through an exploit and have successfully unlocked similar IronKey drives before.
- Wired magazine testified that Unciphered helped them recover data from…
