Hackers Compete to Crack Password of $714 Million Bitcoin Wallet
Who will succeed in cracking the password to access this wallet containing 69,370 Bitcoins, equivalent to $714 million?
A hacker has hacked an encrypted Bitcoin wallet that contains a valuable treasure, and for more than two years, everyone has failed to crack its password. The valuable Bitcoin wallet has been circulating on hacking forums, and hackers from all over the world have intensified their efforts to break into the Bitcoin wallet without anyone being able to do so.
This wallet is considered the sixth most expensive wallet in the world in terms of value, after the cold wallets of some exchanges such as Binance and Huobi, and stealing Bitcoin wallets around the world is a common target among cybercriminals.
The wallet recently briefly appeared on RaidForums, a hacker forum that shares databases and is a marketplace for stolen cryptocurrency wallets, data breaches and leaks, and the said Bitcoin wallet was put up for sale by an unknown hacker.
On June 29 of last year, a person nicknamed humerh3 tried to sell the wallet on Bitcointalk, and a specialized company confirms that a password of more than 15 characters using upper and lower case letters, numbers, special and foreign characters will be impossible to decipher over a lifetime, because it was encrypted with two algorithms, AES-256-CBC and SHA-512.
But after a year, the wallet was recovered and emptied 🫡
