[zahlman]

> bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup

> After finding a mnemonic that actually turned out to be their old password a few weeks ago, the user dumped their entire college computer files in Claude in a last-gasp effort. The bot uncovered an old backup wallet file that it successfully decrypted, while also uncovering a bug in the password configuration that was preventing recovery up to that point.

So it switched from brute-force searching passwords against a file, to brute-force searching files against a password?