John McAfee's "totally secure" cryptocurrency wallet, with a $250,000 reward for discovering its vulnerabilities, was hacked and used by a teenager as a gaming platform for playing DOOM.
A video of a man playing an old-school shooter first appeared on Twitter. Salem Rashid, who managed to hack the wallet, is a fifteen-year-old hacker prodigy. It is worth noting that the Bitfi wallet was advertised as the world's first “unhackable” device. It turned out that this was not the case.
Despite the fact that a huge reward is promised for hacking the Bitfi wallet, it can only be received if the hacker manages to take possession of the cryptocurrency in this wallet. And although it is obvious that in order to run the game on the device it was practically torn to pieces, the currency is not stored on the wallet itself, it is stored somewhere in the cloud.
McAfee tweeted:
“The press is saying that the Bitfi wallet has been hacked. This is complete nonsense. A wallet can be considered hacked if the funds stored in it were stolen. In this case, no one received any funds. Gaining root access in an attempt to take over the coins is not a hack. It is a failed attempt. These “hackers” of yours did not get a penny.”
U Bitfi also has trophies, or rather, one. Last year, it won the "Worst Company" category at the 2017 Pwnie Awards, which recognize excellence or failure in computer security.
Congratulations to Bitfi and Rashid. We just have to wait for the moment when it will be possible to play Skyrim on this device.
According to https://thenextweb.com
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