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From what the article said, I understood the hard drive the wallet was on was encrypted. Once mounted, the wallet would be accessible to anyone with login acces
by rebuilder 10y ago
From what the article said, I understood the hard drive the wallet was on was encrypted. Once mounted, the wallet would be accessible to anyone with login access to the OS.
- iopq 10y agoThe wallet itself is usually encrypted as well. It's good practice, and it's available straight from the client.
- rebuilder 10y agoNowadays, yes. This wallet may have been quite old. Hmm, was there a spike in days destroyed recently...?
- TwoBit 10y agoI don't understand how they got into his computer in the first place. No amount of 2FA breaching could possibly get somebody into my Windows machine remotely. And not having a password for his wallet makes nonsense whatsoever. I'm thinking Forbes has something wrong.
- rebuilder 10y agoGoing by the article, gaining access to his Microsoft account was enough to provide access to his Windows machine. I'm not sure I'd trust Forbes to get this right, but a quick googling indicates that having access to the MS account the main Windows user is linked to will let you recover the admin password.