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Laptop of Crypto-Exchange Owner who Died with Keys to $137m Finally Cracked

posted by martyb on Thursday March 07 2019, @02:19AM   
from the Sitting-on-the-beach,-earning-20%? dept.

Mykl writes:

Following on from an earlier story about the Canadian Crypto exchange whose owner died under suspicious circumstances with the keys to $137m of customers' assets, Business Insider Australia reports that some progress has been made[*] Spoiler alert: the funds are all gone.

The case has sparked numerous theories, including that he faked his own death and ran off with the cash. However, court-appointed auditor Ernst & Young was able to crack Cotten's laptop. What they found, according to an EY report dated March 1, the accounts had been emptied in April 2018, eight months before his death.[*]

[* Ed.'s Update/Correction -- FP]

[...] A court-appointed auditor, Ernst & Young, has secured Cotten’s laptop, home computer, USB keys and home computer. Using public blockchain records, it determined the digital wallets thought to contain millions were emptied in April, eight months before his death [...]

I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

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Original Submission

• Re:Note to self: do not use same encryption he did Re:Note to self: do not use same encryption he did (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @03:12AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @03:12AM (#810993)

  If it was a Windows laptop, the answer is obvious, a NTLM tool exists for a while.

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• Re:Note to self: do not use same encryption he did (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @04:09PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @04:09PM (#811165)

  NTLM? Do you even know what that means?
  I'm pretty sure it's not relevant and turned off by default these days.

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