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Authorities hack cryptocurrency seed phrase (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 3 months ago by mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

The shopping list on the suspect's fridge apparently required

  • Nebula
  • Tangle
  • Horse
  • Piper
  • Green
  • Sharp

Our technician called Coles and Woolies, who confirm these are not regular grocery items, and then he had a lightbulb moment: Beat the suspect with an extension cord until he gave up the seed phrase

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