Case studies · Real recoveries

Wallet recovery case studies

Real recoveries from our lab, told first-hand: the wallet, the problem, the method and the outcome. These are the cases behind our work since 2017.

Forgotten passwords · presale encoding · hardware PINs · seed reconstruction · disk forensics

Passwords & passphrases

• $3M Dogecoin Android wallet recovered with a birthday hint
  Schildbach-style Android .bin backup: a forgotten 12-digit PIN recovered using the owner’s birthday clue.
• MetaMask vault and seed recovered after a lost password
  Decrypting the browser vault to restore the seed phrase after the password was gone.
• Recovering a Trezor PIN and hidden wallet
  A hardware PIN and hidden-wallet passphrase recovered on a Trezor device.

Ethereum presale

• 1000 ETH recovered from a 2014 presale wallet
  The encoding fork that blocked a valid 2014 presale password — and how it was reversed.

Seed reconstruction & forensics

• A 17-word Blockchain.info mnemonic pieced back together
  A partial, non-BIP39 15–21 word mnemonic rebuilt to its full, working form.
• Recovering keys from a dead hard drive
  Forensic recovery of a deleted wallet.dat from failing media.