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PANews May 29th news, according to The Block, two researchers helped a man recover the lost password of his encrypted wallet from 2013, recovering nearly $3 million in value (43.6 BTC) of Bitcoin. The man used RoboForm password manager to generate the wallet password in 2013. The researchers successfully recovered the password using a vulnerability in RoboForm's early random number generator.


One of the researchers, Joe Grand, is a hardware hacker. He and his friend Bruno discovered a vulnerability in RoboForm that relied on the user's computer date and time when generating passwords. Despite the fact that the vulnerability was fixed in 2015, they were still able to find the correct password by testing multiple time parameters. Michael retrieved 43.6 BTC from the wallet, worth approximately 2.96 million US dollars.
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