Recovery Company Offers to Hack Former Ripple CTO's $244 Million Bitcoin Hard Drive

Stephane Thomas, THE ancient chief technology officer has Ripple, has A iron key hard to drive containing 7,002 BTC with only two attempts has guessing A password remaining.

A business East petition ancient Ripple chief technology officer Stephane Thomas For A hard to drive containing more that 7,000 Bitcoin (BTC) that he has has been unable has to access For years.

In A October. 25 open letter, crypto recovery farm Unencrypted Free has open A iron key hard to drive belonging has Thomas containing 7,002 BTC — roughly $244 million has THE time of publication. THE ancient Ripple Technical director forget THE information has to access THE to drive, designed has to erase It is data if A individual enters THE Incorrect password ten times. SO far, THE Born in Germany programmer has used eight out of her ten attempts.

According to has Unencrypted, It is teams developed A method has crack THE material And to access THE BTC keys without issue stored For years. Technology review Wired reported on October. 25 that THE business was able has to access THE data on A similar iron key After "200 thousand billion try" — apparently get around THE 10 attempts restriction on THE drive.

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