How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet

iopq , 1 month ago

To be clear, this is a flaw in RoboForm

ABCDE , 1 month ago

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

Yes, cheers for that.

jeffw OP , 1 month ago

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

AMillionMonkeys , 1 month 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.)

Brkdncr , 1 month ago

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

MedicPigBabySaver , 1 month ago

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

They scoffed at me and never tried it.

PlutoniumAcid , 1 month ago

Pay wall 🖕

AcesFullOfKings , 1 month ago

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PlutoniumAcid , 1 month ago

And on Android?

Today , 1 month ago

I'm android. I get a view button that skips the paywall.

DjMeas , 1 month ago

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.

Aatube , 1 month ago

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

DjMeas , 1 month ago

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

Aatube , 1 month ago

Just use an archive service lol

technocrit , 1 month ago

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

BROTHERM00N , 1 month ago

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