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Greetings to all,

A 250,000$ bounty offered to compromise an unhackable cryptocurrency wallet, has apparently been hacked, thereby gaining root access. However, the hack Is being denied on the following grounds:

McAfee disagreed that root access constitutes a hack.

I know my views on the matter hence If I were In the hacker's shoes, I'd definitely demand the bounty.

Someone claims to have successfully hacked an "unhackable" cryptocurrency wallet.

A self-described IT geek in the Netherlands who goes by @OverSoftNL on Twitter tweeted Wednesday about gaining root access to a crypto-wallet, which antivirus software pioneer John McAfee and hardware crypto-wallet maker Bitfi said had "absolute" security.

Last week, McAfee said he'd entered into a partnership with Bitfi to offer a $100,000 bounty to anyone that could hack a Bitfi wallet. The bounty was later raised to $250,000. Participation in the challenge required the purchase of a $120 Bitfi wallet, preloaded with cryptocurrency.

We have root access, a patched firmware and can confirm the BitFi wallet still connect happily to the dashboard," @OverSoftNL tweeted.

Source.