Pyrofex Corp CTO Michael Stay once broke open an encrypted zip file to rescue $300,000 worth of Bitcoin on behalf of an anonymous Russian investor, according to a recent speech on YouTube. The Russian investor approached him because of his previously published work on hacking encrypted zip files. “If we find the password successfully, I will thank,” he wrote to Stay. According to Stay, the investor purchased the Bitcoin for only $10,000 in 2016. But having placed his funds in the encrypted file and forgetting his password, it seemed like he had lost his Bitcoin forever. Stay, who worked for Google as a security ... (full story)