Lost password recovery

Question

Google Chrome

Briefly describe what happened and how. I have an Asus x55 laptop, so to speak, the main one for home and work, and there is a desktop for watching movies, tv etc. On one unfortunate day, after a good party with another friend, where he had pretty drunk, he came home sat down at the laptop to check the mail (judging by the consequences, since he didn’t remember anything) and probably deciding that my password was not very strong, changed it to a rather long pass with numbers and letters :). Waking up and turning on the laptop, according to tradition, I wanted to check the mail, but the old pass did not fit, I immediately thought that they had taken the mail, but an open notebook with some numbers and letters caught my eye in the background, I immediately realized that he had changed it last night, really he came up and, in order not to enter such a long pass each time, saved it in the browser (chrome). Notepad closed without saving this pass. A few days later due to overheating, apparently because the thermal paste dried up, at the moment when I played and watched the movie in hd, the video burned out.

As a result, the pass from the soap remained only in the files of the chrome user, later I realized that in vain I chose chrome to save the pass in it :) Since there was also FF.

I’ll note right away that I don’t use any mailers, everything is through a web face, there were faces on the laptop. Vista.

I scored on that soap, because important information there, as it seemed to me then, was not there, started a new one, told it to the people with whom I communicated via e-mail, everything was fine until I remembered that there was one letter I needed. Began to think how to restore it. (@ukr.net) In the password recovery options there was only “Secret question”, but due to my own stupidity, when I registered it, I just wrote some kind of nonsense, the answer to which I did not remember at all. There were no other ways to restore the pass.

I went the other way, took the screw out of the laptop, connected it to the computer. I wanted to boot in safe mode from this screw. Nothing happened, it gave an error, I don’t remember exactly which one, in my opinion it is connected with the download area.

Later I booted from XP on the desktop and just decided to get into the folder with the saved chrome profile and restore it with some utility pass, as you can actually do it with FF and other browsers (I restored it more than once). Started searching for this very utility. In the course of searching on various forums, they wrote about some difficulty in recovering passwords from chrome profile files. As it turned out, this browser saves passes quite cunningly, or I myself did not really understand how. Chrome takes the SHA hash of the password of the last log-on to the system and encrypts the saved web form password with it. I wrote as I understood it myself, correct me in the comments if this is not so.

I found one small utility that can just decrypt the ChromePass password. If you decrypt the password, as in my case, from another system using only profile files, you need to specify the same log-on password. Everything seems to be ok, I was even delighted, I thought that I remember my system pass, which I never changed in my opinion. But, the program in the password column did not give any result, i.e. the same log, the password did not fit, or the program does not work (which is unlikely of course), or my memory is bad, though the time has passed after the laptop broke down a lot.
In general, nothing happened.

Please advise what else can be done? Can you tell me how to properly boot from the screw from the laptop to the desktop or there are other ways to recover the password from chrome or how to get the pass from that Vist.

Answer 1

Does the post office have tech support? Write there, tell your sad story. Reinforce the words with facts, such as:
- date of registration of the mailbox (approximate)
- some letters (incoming / outgoing) the contents of which you remember (retell from memory)
- if your name / surname appears in any of the letters, then you can attach a scan of a driver's license or passport (although I advise you never send a scan of your passport anywhere)
- the number of letters in the box
In general, something that only the owner could know. Might help restore

Answer 2

Not sure if it will work, but try it. Connect the screw from the laptop like a USB flash drive to another computer via usb-box, copy from there everything related to Chrome, ProgramFiles, Users and everywhere-everywhere-everywhere where at least some Chrome data is written. Throw it with "copy-replace" in the appropriate folders of a working computer with pure Chrome installed.

Answer 3

Try ChromePasswordDecryptor . Should help.

Answer 4

Chrome on Windows does encrypt passwords using the CryptProtectData function . There, Remarks says that the information can only be decrypted by the same user and only on the same computer (unless otherwise specified, Chrome does not indicate otherwise ) on which the encryption was carried out.
Password recovery utilities are very, very unlikely to be able to help here (only if they can extract the necessary keys from the image of the old system and decrypt them themselves using these keys), I recommend forgetting about the recovery option by decryption.