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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: elia94 on November 06, 2020, 07:24:13 PM



Title: Lost passoword and seed in electrum, help! i pay!
Post by: elia94 on November 06, 2020, 07:24:13 PM
i lost both things, password and seed in electrum. is there a way or someone can help me to crack or brute-force to login again in my wallet? i have 1.4 btc, i can pay 0.4 btc for crack my seed and password .
thank you


Title: Re: Lost passoword and seed in electrum, help! i pay!
Post by: BitMaxz on November 06, 2020, 07:56:38 PM
Why not recover the wallet without other services for safety but if you want there are some well-known but I don't know if how safe their service is.
Here's their website walletrecoveryservices.com

You can check their announcement thread from here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240779.0

Or recover your wallet using the BTCrecovey tool (https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover) you can recover the password without the help of other services.
It may take days if you have a slow PC but if you have a good GPU rig maybe you can get your password in less than a day depending on how many characters in your password or if you remember some parts of your password.

You can find the Electrum wallet file under this path
Code:
C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Electrum\wallets
Make sure you have copy of this wallet file incase bad happens in your wallet file you can use it as your backup in the future.


Title: Re: Lost passoword and seed in electrum, help! i pay!
Post by: o_e_l_e_o on November 06, 2020, 08:23:12 PM
Or recover your wallet using the BTCrecovey tool (https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover) you can recover the password without the help of other services.
I already replied to OP in another thread, but for the sake of completeness, the GitHub you have linked to has not been updated in 3 years. There is a fork of this software available here (https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover/) which is kept up to date, supports more wallets, supports new wallet updates, has more features, and is optimized to run faster.


Title: Re: Lost passoword and seed in electrum, help! i pay!
Post by: HCP on November 06, 2020, 11:38:36 PM
i lost both things, password and seed in electrum. is there a way or someone can help me to crack or brute-force to login again in my wallet?
You could try using:

1. JohnTheRipper script to extract password hash (https://github.com/openwall/john/blob/bleeding-jumbo/run/electrum2john.py)

and

2. HashCat (https://hashcat.net/hashcat/) to try and bruteforce the password.

However, unless you have a relatively good idea of what the password was, how many characters long it was, and a relatively decent GPU, trying to bruteforce it could take quite a long time.