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How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet (www.wired.com)
submitted 7 months ago by jeffw to c/technology
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[–] iopq 53 points 7 months ago (2 children)

To be clear, this is a flaw in RoboForm

[–] ABCDE 43 points 7 months ago

"Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager"

Yes, cheers for that.

[–] jeffw 19 points 7 months ago

I mean, they say it was fixed shortly after he made his password. It was a flaw until 2015

[–] Brkdncr 46 points 7 months ago

Password generator used the date/time to create the password. It was fixed a long time ago.

[–] AMillionMonkeys 42 points 7 months 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.)

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 20 points 7 months ago

I tried to tell them it was: "Password123".

They scoffed at me and never tried it.

[–] PlutoniumAcid 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Pay wall 🖕

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

12ft.io works for Wired. Here's a link.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Whenever I hit paywalled articles, I have Gemini summarize it for me. Here's what I got:

This is an article about a flaw in a password manager. It discusses a man named Michael who lost access to his bitcoin wallet. The password manager he used generated a weak password. Researchers were able to crack the password because of this weakness. They used the date and time the password was created to guess it. Michael was able to recover his bitcoin wallet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Archive.today is way more energy-efficient and actually gives you the article details

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Good call. For the commenter above: https://archive.ph/nVy4s

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Just use an archive service lol

[–] BROTHERM00N 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o5IySpAkThg Here's the YouTube video about it

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