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Man Regains Access to $400,000 in Bitcoin After AI Assistant Locates 9-Year-Old Password File
A user who changed his Bitcoin password while high in college nearly a decade ago regained access to his holdings this week. The AI assistant Claude located a file containing the password lol420f*ckthePOLICE! on an old computer after the man tried “like 7 trillion passwords.” The recovery was announced on X by the account @cprkrn.
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A person using the X handle @cprkrn has recovered access to $400,000 in Bitcoin after an AI assistant located his long-forgotten password. The password change occurred nearly a decade ago while he was high in college. He tried “like 7 trillion passwords” before turning to the AI assistant Claude, which found a 9-year-old file containing the password on an old computer, he said.
The recovered password is lol420f*ckthePOLICE! @cprkrn tweeted about the recovery this week. “HOLY F-CKING SH-T OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SH-T, THANK YOU,” the user posted on X. ” @cprkrn also tweeted “NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU” in reference to Claude.
New York Post reported the details of the unusual recovery. The AI system scanned his computer and found a bitcoin wallet with information leading to the password. The user had changed his Bitcoin password to something he considered totally “obvious” at the time.
He thought his fortune had gone up in smoke after repeated failed attempts to log in. The breakthrough came when Claude miraculously located the file from nine years earlier. Fellow tech users responded with congratulations on X. One commenter wrote, “This is insane.
” The episode highlights how older digital files can sometimes surface through modern AI tools. @cprkrn shared the full sequence of events in posts that spread rapidly this week.
