Huh? No. Seed phrase and pass phrase serve two totally different functions.
If you mint your seed phrase onto a seed plate, that is a single point of compromise. A sufficiently complex passphrase on top of that creates layered security.
Whenever I see stories like this It immediately makes me go check on my set up and ensure my stack is still there, thats several boating accidents worth of coin, wonder why he didn't at least spread it around and use different storage methods
so tragic and unnecessary.
I like to think that most of these stories are boating accident bluffs. Because if not, eesh.
deleted by author
Having a wallet passphrase NOT stored next to the seed phrase in the password manager would have fixed this
Unlikely unless it's a very difficult one. Attacker has lots of information thanks to leak, they're likely to put some gpus to work to crack it.
A good hardware wallet makes it easy to enter a very difficult passphrase which would take years / decades to crack
You're basically writing your own seed phrase at that point, why bother
Huh? No. Seed phrase and pass phrase serve two totally different functions. If you mint your seed phrase onto a seed plate, that is a single point of compromise. A sufficiently complex passphrase on top of that creates layered security.
Is it possible that the random number generator used to construct the seed phrase was the real problem?
Hacking seems more difficult to believe.
Whenever I see stories like this It immediately makes me go check on my set up and ensure my stack is still there, thats several boating accidents worth of coin, wonder why he didn't at least spread it around and use different storage methods
I hope he bought the 25 BTC for cheap. Totally dumb to put the seedphrase online 🤦🏼♀️
deleted by author
How wasn't he sweating bullets all those years
Exactly, how is it only a problem now thats its lost, it was the problem the moment he funded that wallet
Twitter2Nitter
Clearnet: nitter.net | nitter.it | nitter.cz | nitter.at | nitter.unixfox.eu | nitter.poast.org | nitter.privacydev.net | nitter.d420.de | nitter.sethforprivacy.com | nitter.nicfab.eu | bird.habedieeh.re | nitter.salastil.com | nt.ggtyler.dev
Tor: nitter7bryz3..q553qd.onion | 26oq3gioiwcm..b4wwid.onion | vfaomgh4jxph..dauqad.onion | nitraeju2mip..evvuqd.onion | codeine3hsqn..brdqqd.onion
I2P: axd6uavsstsr..zf4q.b32.i2p | u6ikd6zndl3c..n2qa.b32.i2p | gseczlzmiv23..aoua.b32.i2p | tm4rwkeysv3z..4weq.b32.i2p | vernzdedoxuf..agva.b32.i2p
Lokinet: nitter.priv.loki/
Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. Click here for more information.
said he had it stored on self-hosted keepass
Makes that even worse then, as poor security practices may have unintentionally been utilized.