一名男子在认为自己的密码永远丢失后找回了价值 300 万美元的比特币

这位被称为“迈克尔”的匿名男子雇佣了一个安全研究团队，他们能够解锁他的比特币钱包并取回 43.6 比特币

A European man has recovered nearly $3 million in Bitcoin after thinking his password was lost forever, according to a report from Wired.

据《连线》报道，一名欧洲男子在认为自己的密码永远丢失后，已经找回了近 300 万美元的比特币。

The anonymous man, who goes by "Michael," hired a team of security researchers who were able to unlock his Bitcoin wallet and retrieve 43.6 Bitcoin.

这位名叫“Michael”的匿名男子雇佣了一个安全研究团队，他们成功解锁了他的比特币钱包并取回了 43.6 个比特币。

In 2013, Michael created a password using a generator called Roboform that consisted of 20 upper- and lower-case letters and numbers. Due to security concerns, Michael kept the password in an encrypted file instead of storing it with RoboForm.

2013 年，Michael 使用名为 Roboform 的生成器创建了一个由 20 个大小写字母和数字组成的密码。出于安全考虑，Michael 将密码保存在加密文件中，而不是将其存储在 RoboForm 中。

When the encrypted file got corrupted, however, Michael lost access to the 20-character password required to access the 43.6 Bitcoin in the wallet.

然而，当加密文件损坏时，迈克尔无法访问钱包中 43.6 比特币所需的 20 个字符的密码。

Michael lost hope of recovering the password and his Bitcoin, but in 2022, he convinced electrical engineer Joe Grand to try to help. Grand, who goes by the hacker handle ‘Kingpin,’ explained in a video that he and his colleague exploited a long-fixed vulnerability in the RoboForm password generator.

迈克尔失去了找回密码和比特币的希望，但在 2022 年，他说服了电气工程师乔·格兰德 (Joe Grand) 尝试提供帮助。 Grand 的黑客账号为“Kingpin”，他在视频中解释说，他和他的同事利用了 RoboForm 密码生成器中一个长期修复的漏洞。

At the time Michael created his password, the generator associated each code with the specific date and time of its creation on the user’s computer. Grand and his team used this flaw to solve the problem. (Roboform says the issue was resolved in 2015, but it might have impacted passwords created prior to that, Wired reported.)

当迈克尔创建密码时，生成器将每个代码与其在用户计算机上创建的特定日期和时间相关联。 Grand 和他的团队利用这个缺陷解决了这个问题。 （据《连线》报道，Roboform 表示该问题已于 2015 年得到解决，但可能会影响在此之前创建的密码。）

Michael couldn't tell exactly when he created the password, but the team found out that he moved Bitcoin to his wallet on April 13, 2013. Last November, they adjusted the parameters on the password generator so it would behave as if it was certain dates around that timeframe — until it generated the correct code, which was created on May 15, 2013.

迈克尔无法准确说出他何时创建了密码，但团队发现他于 2013 年 4 月 13 日将比特币转移到了自己的钱包中。去年 11 月，他们调整了密码生成器的参数，使其表现得好像是确定的一样该时间范围内的日期 - 直到生成正确的代码（该代码创建于 2013 年 5 月 15 日）。

The price of Bitcoin has skyrocketed since Michael lost the password. In April 2013, Bitcoin was $140 per coin, and now it is hovering around $68,000. He says that had he had access to his wallet, he would have sold the cryptocurrency when it reached $40,000 a coin. “That I lost the password was financially a good thing,” he told Wired.

自从迈克尔丢失密码以来，比特币的价格飙升。 2013 年 4 月，比特币每枚价格为 140 美元，现在徘徊在 68,000 美元左右。他说，如果他能使用自己的钱包，当加密货币达到每枚 40,000 美元时，他就会出售该加密货币。 “我丢失了密码在经济上是一件好事，”他告诉《连线》杂志。

Grand and his team received a portion of the Bitcoin as a reward, and Michael sold some of it at $62,000 per coin. He now owns 30 Bitcoin worth $2 million and wants to sell the rest when it reaches $100,000 per coin. Not bad for what once looked like a lost cause.

Grand 和他的团队收到了一部分比特币作为奖励，Michael 以每枚 62,000 美元的价格出售了其中一部分。他现在拥有 30 个比特币，价值 200 万美元，并希望在每枚比特币达到 10 万美元时出售其余的比特币。对于曾经看似失败的事业来说，这还算不错。