Found secret password: unlocked the crypto wallet

Original title (Norwegian): Fant hemmelig passord: Låste opp krypto-lommeboken

Norway · Nettavisen · 25 Sep 2026 · may require a subscription

Police have opened the crypto wallet of an NHH student in his twenties who is charged in a drug case, after he refused for more than nine months to give up the passwords. Investigators found a twelve-word recovery phrase in his home and moved the funds out of an Exodus wallet. Police attorney Jørgen Henriksen says the seizure is worth several hundred thousand kroner. Police had earlier traced transfers of millions of kroner in the case but had been unable to open the wallet.

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