Seed phrases easily guessable: Crypto thieves empty offline wallets

By withut-me 04.08.2026 at 03:57 Uhr Finance & Stock Market Laws & Rights IT & Internet
TL;DR AI-generated Crypto thieves stole over 75 million Euros worth of Bitcoin from thousands of offline hardware wallets due to a firmware error since March 2021. The error caused random number generators to malfunction, making seed phrases predictable. An update does not help; stolen assets must be transferred to new wallets.

Source: heise.de

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