Australian police crack $5.9M crypto wallet in “miraculous” recovery

[etfs]

Australian Federal Police have cracked a coded cryptocurrency wallet containing AU$9 million ($5.9 million) — a breakthrough the commissioner called “miraculous work.”
The encrypted seed phrase was hidden among numbers and words found on a suspect’s phone.
A data scientist, dubbed the AFP’s “crypto safe cracker,” discovered that removing the first number from each sequence revealed the 24-word seed phrase.
The funds were seized by the Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce and could be redistributed for crime prevention programs, pending court approval.

[kelson10]

$5.9M recovered? That’s one for the record books. Australia’s digital forensics is next level.

[alex10]

The blockchain leaves footprints — another reminder criminals can’t hide forever.