Technology

59691 readers

2083 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

119

Authorities hack cryptocurrency seed phrase (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

According to the article ‘the Australian Federal Police (AFP) will allege that an analytics specialist from the AFP's Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce deciphered Mr Jung's cryptocurrency account's "seed phrase".’

The word ‘decipher’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I’m wondering if they socially engineered or just found it written somewhere in the house?

Anyway, curious as to how they did it.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They have guys that point guns at your face. This is their version of hacking.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

https://xkcd.com/538/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, the ol’ “Brute Force” hack.