I have an older version of Electrum installed on a desktop that has approx 0.065btc in the wallet (pre-spinoffs). I have not updated the client. I used many different passwords and managed to lose track of the one for this wallet. I read about an exploit in Electrum that can steal the private keys from wallets. Maybe this can be used for some good for once. Is there a reputable member here, preferably someone I know, that can help me retrieve the coins from my wallet?
It's leftovers from a class project in which I gave each student 0.01 - 0.02 btc to promote social justice in their local community. I am fine splitting the proceeds with someone who can assist in retrieving them. If you happen to live in NC, it would be better to do this in person.
Cheers,
Pistachio
I'm not aware of such hacks that have affected encrypted wallet files. I know recently there was a json response call that could be done on unencrypted wallets to scrape data from peoples' computers but if the wallet was encrypted:
1. if the wallet file entirely was encrypted, then nothing can be gained.
2. if the wallet file wasn't then the master public key and addresses were the only things that could be taken.
There is Btcrecover that is a piece of software that I think supports electrum if you can do it personally [it helps if you have a GPU is it's obviously quite intensive on processing power] or there are online services that you can access that'll do it for you (not sure how much they charge but lots of people seem happy with their service, even if it is probably quite slow to get a response).
Do you have any idea as to any information about the password? How many characters could it have contained, what do you think it was loosley based on, did you used to make passwords based on just words alone that could use a dictionary so less possibilities of passwords need to be searched in order to gain the password to your wallet and decrypt it.
