Cooke insists that when Microsoft designed BitLocker for Windows 7, it took into account TPM’s vulnerabilities. The company should have known them as this isn’t the first time TPM was hacked.

However, the security team at security company SCRT reported that by directly hacking the hardware, the TPM key could be stolen and the data on Bitlocker-protected devices could be accessed.

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