{"id":202087,"date":"2024-12-21T06:17:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T12:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/hacker-breaks-into-crypto-wallet-and-recovers-2000000-in-high-stakes-hack"},"modified":"2024-12-21T06:17:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T12:17:54","slug":"hacker-breaks-into-crypto-wallet-and-recovers-2000000-in-high-stakes-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/hacker-breaks-into-crypto-wallet-and-recovers-2000000-in-high-stakes-hack","title":{"rendered":"Hacker breaks into crypto wallet and recovers $2,000,000 in \u2018high-stakes\u2019 hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacker-breaks-into-crypto-wallet-and-recovers-2000000-in-high-stakes-hack2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One hacker has managed to recover over $2,000,000 for a man who forgot the password to his crypto wallet by breaking into the physical device in a \u2018high-stakes\u2019 hacking attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Even in its infancy <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/cryptocurrency\">cryptocurrency<\/a> was worth a lot of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/money\">money<\/a>, and it\u2019s surprisingly easy to lose it all with one simple mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Horror stories of people accidentally <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/news\/tech-news\/man-who-lost-632-million-bitcoin-wallet-sues-council-279409-20241205\">throwing away hard drives with hundreds of millions of dollars<\/a> worth of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a> are more than enough to scare anyone away, and this particular video shows how close of a call it can be to recover otherwise simple information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hacker has managed to recover over $2,000,000 for a man who forgot the password to his crypto wallet by breaking into the physical device in a \u2018high-stakes\u2019 hacking attempt. Even in its infancy cryptocurrency was worth a lot of money, and it\u2019s surprisingly easy to lose it all with one simple mistake. Horror stories [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}