A former hacker from the 1990's helps out an owner of a well-known hardware wallet white-hat brute force into their device so to recover the cryptocurrency worth over $2 million after bypassing the security measures put in place by the company.
Very clever showing step by step on how this was achieved when a company proclaims their devices are hacker proof.
He put the findings up on their website for submission and the french company was greatful and have since plugged up this hole in it's security on these devices via a firmware upgrade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT9y-KQbqi4source: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/24/22898712/crypto-hardware-wallet-hacking-lost-bitcoin-ethereum-nftThe company in question had responded to the video above and stated this was an exploit back in 2017 and had since been resolved. The device must of not been updated since that firmware since the owner could not gain access to the device so to do that upgrade.
So he was lucky in this retrospective.