Stefan Thomas has 7,002 bitcoins worth up to $800M locked on an IronKey USB, with only two password attempts left in 2026.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco man who can't remember the password to unlock his $220 million Bitcoin fortune says he long ago "made peace" with the reality he may never gain access. Stefan Thomas ...

Of the existing 18.5 million bitcoin, about 20 percent, which is currently worth around $ 140 billion, appear to be in lost or stranded wallets. Stefan Thomas, a German programmer based in San ...

The FBI's breach of a bitcoin wallet held by the cyber criminals who attacked Colonial Pipeline is all about sloppy storage, and not a reflection of a security vulnerability in the digital currency, ...

Forgetting your Instagram password is annoying. Forgetting your crypto wallet password could be devastating. Crypto owners don't have the luxury of emailing themselves a password reset link if they're ...

Passwords: we all forget them from time to time. It’s normal, even expected. Thankfully, there’s usually a way to recover them. But for one man, forgetting a password may have cost him a fortune. Meet ...

If you’ve lost access to a non-custodial wallet but still have the seed phrase, funds can be restored by importing the wallet and setting a new password. Custodial wallets can often be recovered ...