An individual who bought Bitcoin in 2015 forgot the password needed to access an Obama-era crypto wallet. After more than a decade, Claude AI was used to search an old computer for ways to use an existing mnemonic phrase to recover the missing credentials. The person reported having two of three required passwords but not the crucial third after changing it and later forgetting it. After eight weeks and access to the old college computer, Claude located a wallet backup that the mnemonic phrase could decrypt. Decryption provided the private keys needed to access a Blockchain.com wallet. The funds had remained dormant since April 2015 and were later transferred out.
"Armed only with an old mnemonic phrase, the man plugged it into Claude and told the AI to search his computer for ways he could use it to figure out the password that could regain access to the 5 Bitcoins he bought in 2015 at a Starbucks. He told web show MTSlive that he had two of the three passwords needed to open up the wallet, but couldn't find the crucial third after changing it, and naturally later forgetting it, while he was high."
"After eight weeks working to crack the password, and after the man gave it access to his old computer used for college work, Claude found a wallet backup that the mnemonic phrase was able to decrypt. According to an overview of the mission, written by Claude, accessing the wallet backup gave the man access to the private keys required to access the Blockchain.com wallet."
"Previous attempts to regain access to the wallet involved brute forcing password strings, 3.5 trillion of them by Claude's reckoning, all to no avail. He even traveled back to his parents' house to retrieve college notebooks, manually entering "anything that looked lik"
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