He forgot the password to his USB stick where he stored 400 million euros in Bitcoin. And a hacker managed to decrypt it

The IronKey pendrive had been blocked with the keys to 7,002 bitcoins inside

Almost all of us have forgotten the password to access our email, the cloud or a social network at some point. But this was not of great importance, since it could simply be recovered from the servers and nothing really valuable was going to be lost if we were unable to get in. But in the opposite case we have Stefan Thomas, a man who forgot the password to access a USB stick.

At first glance, accessing a USB stick may not be a very important thing, but if we tell you that it contains the keys to 7,002 bitcoins and that these amount to a value of 400 million euros today, the story changes completely. The problem? That in addition to forgetting the password, if you enter it incorrectly the 225 million euros inside will be deleted.

400 million euros stored on a USB

The pendrive in question is an IronKey, whose brand was "absorbed" in 2016 by Kingston Technology and which can be bought in any store in our country. It is not a rare device at all, but it has now become a problem. But finally, as reported by Wired, a hacker was able to quickly discover the password of the pendrive that had been sent to him. Something really complicated since brute force could not be used since after 10 passwords all its content was erased.