Solanadoomer1 reveals he paid a hacker 50 ETH to brute force his forgotten ICO wallet "I bought the ETH ICO and completely forgot about it until 2022. I saw someone tweet about it and thought, shit, I think I bought that. Went back through my Coinbase history and sure enough, I spent $60 and received 200 ETH. I dug out this old laptop that barely worked, plugged it in, searched wallet, and the file popped up. But I had no idea what the password was." "I found a guy who brute forces wallets and sent him a list of passwords I thought it could be. 5 minutes later he messages me, it's unlocked. He took about 25%, which was fine because I wasn't getting it unlocked myself, and I had 150 ETH in my wallet. I took a little out, paid some taxes, then put the rest into Solana NFTs and lost basically everything."