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

submitted 2 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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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

nah, they just told him who had hits out on him, and that he'd be fed to the wolves if he didn't help.

The protective punishment of the state is probably a lot lighter than the street justice of global networks of criminal gangs.