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Australian Police Crack Suspect's Encrypted Wallet, Seize $6 Million in Criminal Assets

Australian Police Crack Suspect’s Encrypted Wallet, Seize $6 Million in Criminal Assets

BlockBeats News, October 30th, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett revealed on Wednesday that a data scientist from the Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce has successfully cracked a “suspected criminal’s” encrypted wallet, unlocking over $6 million. The data scientist accessed the wallet by identifying fake numbers in the seed phrase sequence. The suspect attempted to set up an “encryption trap” by adding numbers to the beginning of the sequence, but the artificial modification was eventually detected.

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