Help accessing coins in old Electrum wallet

[SourPatch]

I was using Electrum 2.9.3. It's saying "Not connected" - and I know this is because of the DDoS attack. My wallet was password-protected. Is there any way of accessing the coin in that old wallet? If so, how? Thanks in advance for the help. I'm not really tech savvy.

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[Rath_]

Is there any way of accessing the coin in that old wallet? If so, how?

Versions older than 3.3.0 aren't able to connect to the network. Download the latest version ( 3.3.8 ) from the official website. You should also verify the installer.

[NeuroticFish]

I was using Electrum 2.9.3. It's saying "Not connected" - and I know this is because of the DDoS attack. My wallet was password-protected. Is there any way of accessing the coin in that old wallet? If so, how? Thanks in advance for the help. I'm not really tech savvy.

First thing to do is to make sure you have a backup of either your seed, either your wallet file.
Then you should download the new version from (and only from) electrum.org
For extra safety you should check the signature to make sure the file is genuine, but that's longer, however @BitCryptex has posted the link for that.

Then install the new version. It should simply work. If it doesn't, come back with questions.

[SourPatch]

I was using Electrum 2.9.3. It's saying "Not connected" - and I know this is because of the DDoS attack. My wallet was password-protected. Is there any way of accessing the coin in that old wallet? If so, how? Thanks in advance for the help. I'm not really tech savvy.

First thing to do is to make sure you have a backup of either your seed, either your wallet file.
Then you should download the new version from (and only from) electrum.org
For extra safety you should check the signature to make sure the file is genuine, but that's longer, however @BitCryptex has posted the link for that.

Then install the new version. It should simply work. If it doesn't, come back with questions.

Thank you both. Really appreciate the quick responses.

[Lucius]

SourPatch, you have two option to get access to your coins. First is to just download the latest version of Electrum (be sure that you are using only: https://electrum.org/#home ) for your OS. Then just install that new version, and you will have an updated version of Electrum, your coins will be there when you open a wallet and type your password.

The second option is to uninstall old wallet and then install a new one, but in that case, you need to have your seed (12 words) to recover the wallet. You need to select the option "I already have seed" in the process of creating wallet.

I recommend you try the first option, but before anything be sure that you have seed words. You can check them by clicking on tab "Wallets" and select "Seed".

[pooya87]

FWIW this has nothing to do with DDoS attack. this is an intentional change that almost all legit Electrum servers have implemented in order to "crash" your client's network instance and prevent it from connecting to any other server too. that way they will protect all the old versions from suddenly connecting to a malicious server which could exploit a message-bug that existed in older versions that could show them a fake message deceiving them into downloading a malicious version.

[Abdussamad]

SourPatch, you have two option to get access to your coins. First is to just download the latest version of Electrum (be sure that you are using only: https://electrum.org/#home ) for your OS. Then just install that new version, and you will have an updated version of Electrum, your coins will be there when you open a wallet and type your password.

The second option is to uninstall old wallet and then install a new one, but in that case, you need to have your seed (12 words) to recover the wallet. You need to select the option "I already have seed" in the process of creating wallet.

I recommend you try the first option, but before anything be sure that you have seed words. You can check them by clicking on tab "Wallets" and select "Seed".

uninstalling doesn't remove the wallet files.