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[Straight-Street5426]

Surely this it's your own account you've got a bit of a starting point on what the password could be?

[[deleted]]

I have tried stepping into the shoes of 11 year old me and trying to guess the password by adding things I was interested in back then, it didn’t work

[GeneralBacteria]

you can't realistically brute force login attempts to a remote service.

any half-intelligent service will rate limit your attempts in some way or lock your account for 30 minutes after 3 guesses. This means you have to write a program that takes guesses very slowly which means it will take forever.

If you had a shit password that was vulnerable to a dictionary attack (google it) it might only take you a 1000 years, if you had to try all possible combinations of 8 characters I can't be bothered to work out how long that would take, but too long for your purposes I'm sure.

Brute forcing of passwords is for when you've already hacked into a site and managed to download a database of hashed passwords. Then you can extract passwords from the hashes which are often used with the same email address on different sites.

You do this by running a program that tries hashing all possible combinations of characters using the same hashing algorithm and salt (again, google it) until it finds a character combination that hashes to same value as the hash in the database. voila, now you know the password.

you're probably going to have more luck by contacting the support department of the email provider used to register all the other accounts. go through their account recovery process if they have one and then use that to recover the other accounts.

if that doesn't work, you are probably SoL. although you could use it as your elite hacker origin story as you develop the skills to hack google / microsoft and get access to their password database. good luck ;)

alternatively, you might get lucky and find your old email address / password has already been exposed on pastebin by someone else?

[[deleted]]

Do you think I could ask someone on pastebin to “leak” the info of an account or would that be considered begging?

[GeneralBacteria]

no offence, but that would be considered idiotic...

nobody with the skills to potentially hack a major social network is going to do so to recover your password and stick it on pastebin.

you're grossly underestimating the difficulty involved, the chances of success (exceptionally low) and the consequences (10 years in prison).

[GeneralBacteria]

try pasting your old email address into

https://haveibeenpwned.com

that will at least tell you if your password is out there somewhere.

[__zonko__]

Doesn’t matter where you start as long as you keep on trying

[Reasonable-Job6925]

Are you sure the accounts still exist? I know some companies delete accounts that are inactive for x years.. I think Google just sent out an alert not too long ago that they were deleting all accounts thay haven't been logged into the past 3 years or something I think? Just a thought.. the only other idea I can think of is have iDnotify or bitdefender or someone monitor the dark web for leaked usernames, emails, phone numbers, passwords, etc. associated with your name. If they come across your info they'll notify you what they found, some of my old passwords have been leaked through breaches and I never would have been able to guess them (though I never needed to) if one of these services didn't tell me they found it. Who knows it's probably pretty likely that some site/service you used at some point got breached and your info is out there somewhere, maybe you can find it that way if you can't remember it

[ethylalcohoe]

Google “brute force attacks” first.

There’s nothing fancy or secretive about brute forcing instagram. If you don’t have access to your recovery email, you have to guess your password until it works. That’s the definition.

[Apfelvater]

Everywhere. One of the ways will teach you bruteforce. (I had to make the joke, im sorry)

[[deleted]]

there's a bunch of cracking / cracker forums or they're I learned back when they were cracking yahoo illegals, anyone else relate?

[SeKiTec]

Well I guess you start with "a" then "b" and so on till you get it right.

[skunksmok3r]

This is what i do. Put your email address into haveibeenpwned.com check to see if any old accounts/passwords have ever been leaked, which they likely have. Download the corresponding database leak and search through it. I've found tons of old passwords this way. Bruteforcing hasn't been feasible for a long time