Former Google Engineer Claims to Hack Zip File Containing $300,000 in BTC

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Published Apr 05, 2020 12:00PM ET

Updated Apr 05, 2020 01:40PM ET

Michael Stay, a former software engineer with Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and the current CTO of smart contract and decentralized application (Dapp) firm, Pyrofex, claims to have successfully hacked a zip file containing the private keys to over $300,000 in Bitcoin (BTC).

In a blog post, Stay says that his journey began when he received a message from “a Russian guy” on LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) about six months ago.

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