German-born programmer Stefan Thomas told the Times he forgot the password to IronKey, an secure flash drive has access to 7,002 Bitcoin - $220 million worth.
It is hilarious to know a programmer did not do safe backups for his bitcoin. As normal user as me if I care to do safe backups, I can do it. Relying on memory to remember passwords is stupid. There are password managers that can help to backup multiple passwords (offline) and also help to create randomly passwords.