Recover Chrome password
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Hello everyone, for once I'm asking a question. Let me explain:
I retrieved a client's HDD (motherboard dead) and the client wants to recover their Chrome passwords.
So with my external HDD, I copied their Chrome profile (users\appdata\local\Google\Chrome\Default) without forgetting the login data sql file into an empty Chrome profile.
With web browsers, I can get their IDs but not their passwords.
So I suspect one thing, does Chrome include a link between passwords and Microsoft account for security, or is there something else I'm missing?
Is there a solution?
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they synced their passwords with a Google account, but I'm not sure.
Thanks guys. Have a good evening.
I retrieved a client's HDD (motherboard dead) and the client wants to recover their Chrome passwords.
So with my external HDD, I copied their Chrome profile (users\appdata\local\Google\Chrome\Default) without forgetting the login data sql file into an empty Chrome profile.
With web browsers, I can get their IDs but not their passwords.
So I suspect one thing, does Chrome include a link between passwords and Microsoft account for security, or is there something else I'm missing?
Is there a solution?
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they synced their passwords with a Google account, but I'm not sure.
Thanks guys. Have a good evening.
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Hello,
The passwords stored by Chrome are encrypted to prevent the "wild" copying of the file that stores them, which shouldn't be allowed.
You can check with ChromePass from Nirsoft: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chromepass.html
But I can't promise anything regarding data recovery.
If the hard drive is still functional and only the motherboard is dead, we can try to boot the hard drive in order to launch Chrome and recover the information it stores, as a last resort. This shouldn't pose any issues, in theory, of course, and it's the last solution that would allow for recovery, if they are not visible without starting the system.
~ To know how to listen is to possess, besides one’s own, the minds of others... said Leonardo da Vinci.
~ "The art of writing is, above all, to be understood" — Eugène Delacroix
The passwords stored by Chrome are encrypted to prevent the "wild" copying of the file that stores them, which shouldn't be allowed.
You can check with ChromePass from Nirsoft: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chromepass.html
But I can't promise anything regarding data recovery.
If the hard drive is still functional and only the motherboard is dead, we can try to boot the hard drive in order to launch Chrome and recover the information it stores, as a last resort. This shouldn't pose any issues, in theory, of course, and it's the last solution that would allow for recovery, if they are not visible without starting the system.
~ To know how to listen is to possess, besides one’s own, the minds of others... said Leonardo da Vinci.
~ "The art of writing is, above all, to be understood" — Eugène Delacroix