They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB Drive Holding 7,002 Bitcoins.
Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them. At 9:30 am on a Wednesday in late September, a hacker who asked to be called Tom Smith sent me a nonsensical text message: “query voltage …