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Authorities hack cryptocurrency seed phrase

www.abc.net.au Alleged Ghost app creator had millions in crypto, says AFP

Australian Federal Police allege the creator of Ghost app, used by criminals for communications had amassed millions in cryptocurrency.

Alleged Ghost app creator had millions in crypto, says AFP

According to the article ‘the Australian Federal Police (AFP) will allege that an analytics specialist from the AFP's Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce deciphered Mr Jung's cryptocurrency account's "seed phrase".’

The word ‘decipher’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I’m wondering if they socially engineered or just found it written somewhere in the house?

Anyway, curious as to how they did it.

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