There
are many people who die in strange circumstances, but when you take with you a
code worth millions of dollars, it is a must-see. Gerald Cotten left this
earthly world carrying secret passwords that guard a fortune of over 145
million dollars.
Perhaps
because of this, your closest friends will be waiting for you, because
Halloween is the day of the dead, the CEO of Quadriga CX, will let you know
your keys.
A death
that bore millions in cryptocurrencies
It dawns
on December 9 and in the course of the day the news of the death, in strange
circumstances, of Gerald Cotten, founder, director and CEO of the firm Quadriga
CX, the largest platform for the exchange of cryptocurrencies in Canada is
released . Cotten was diagnosed, as a cause of death, of a digestive tract
problem, in Jaipur, India.
This is
why we talk about strange circumstances, because it was a young man of 30 years
who was in good health. But on this trip to India he presented a
clinical case that took him to death. Perhaps because of the fortuitous outcome of the fatal outcome; Gerald
did not have the time to leave his wife with the encrypted keys of the managed
accounts.
Never a
lot of security
There
are many attacks that hackers have given to cyber strikes for hundreds of
millions of dollars. But recently, at least five attacks have been of
high importance. Two of these
attacks were perpetrated in Japan, a country with the largest number of
accounts and digital currency exchange.
Aware of
this security problem, Cotten encrypted everything that was related to the
accounts he handled; such as email addresses and messaging that he used as a
means of control and access to the company's accounts during the 5 years he
directed it.
Since
nobody knows the passwords to unlock the assets and Bitcoin saved by the
company system. It has deprived the hypothesis of a Quadriga CX scam to
its customers. Well, it would
only be Cotten who knew the keys to the exchange of cryptocurrencies.
Jennifer
Robertson: "I don't know the password or how to recover it"
Cotten's wife said she didn't know the keys or passwords
her husband used to encrypt the financial information. He also added that he has made all the efforts
to discover them; but it has been a fruitless task, because he has not found
the passwords written somewhere.
The
company has done everything possible to release the accounts, so it has hired
the services of the most reputable hackers to decipher the keys and recover the
millionaire sum in cryptocurrencies. All tasks aimed at hacking the electronic
devices used by Gerald have ended in failure.
There
are more than one hundred thousand users affected
The death of Gerald Cotten left about 100,000
clients of the Quadriga CX firm totally unprotected and without hope of
recovering the money they invested in the financial firm. Hopefully during Halloween
night someone can make contact with the spirit of Cotten and recover the keys
buried in his grave.
SOURCE: Criptotendencia
