So I have a bitcoin address with 3.66 bitcoin in it but I lost the key in a file that I encrypted back in 2013. When I was creating the past phrase, I just did random Keys on the keyboard and didn’t think much of it until it encrypted the file, but it didn’t leave any previous versions of the file. I still have the drive and have done a dated recovery myself, but for some reason there still is no previous version of that file. It’s just the strangest thing.

Anyway, so we get to about a couple of days ago I wanted to have somebody else to take a look at this and he’s like well. You know we don’t even have to do with that because on the dark web there’s called bitcoin crackers which basically give you a new Private key. He says it would take an hour to do any charge 450 bucks. I told him I didn’t have it so he said have a nice day.

So I did some digging I went on the dark web myself and saw where people are selling bitcoin wallets for super cheap not only that but I did find the bitcoin cracker software and they range anywhere from $25-$300 sometimes even more than that.

So I’m thinking how do they find the bitcoin wallet.DAT files. I’m sure it’s through Some sort of Malware That gets injected into the system through. I would guess either phishing emails Or SMS links.