How to find out the password from VK through the page code, knowing the login and more

Passwords are the main means of protecting information and are used everywhere on a computer - from logging into an account to authorizing on pages on social networks. An active user has so many different security keys that it is impossible to keep them all in memory. This is where the function of saving passwords in the browser settings comes to the rescue.

It works like this:

You open a website that requires registration.
Enter your login information in your profile.
The browser prompts you to save the entered information - you agree.

The next time you open this site, you do not need to enter anything; even if you log out of your account, all lines of the authorization form will be filled in. But here a serious drawback is revealed - let's find out how to view a password hidden with asterisks, and whether it is possible to do this at all.

Via page code

Many users are interested in the question of how to find out the password from VK if they logged in from my computer? If you have access to a person’s computer, then it is most convenient to view it through the page code. To do this you need:

Go to the start page with a login form;
Left-click on the window with the saved login data;
In the window that appears, find “View element code”;
Edit the line, you need to replace “password” with “text”.

After such changes, a numerical combination will appear instead of asterisks on the start page. It is worth noting that many users know how to find out their VK password through the page code, so you should not save data in the browser when logging in from someone else’s computer.

How to find out your VK password using an element code

If you exit VKontakte, we will see a field where the login is shown and the password is encrypted with asterisks or dots.

In order for the treasured code to be displayed instead of asterisks, you need to do the following.

1. Move the mouse cursor over the line with dots, and right-click on it, in the window that opens, click on the “Examine element” item. In other browsers, this item may be called “View Code”.

2. On the right side, the page code is displayed, where the code of the element we need is highlighted in blue, right-click on it, and in the window that opens, click on the “Edit as HTML” item.

3. In the newly opened window, instead of “password”, enter “text”.

4. Close the console, after which the password will be displayed instead of dots.

Password guessing method (if login is known)

Now we’ll tell you how to find out the password from VK, knowing the login - through the number attached to the page. You need to do these steps:

Click on “Forgot your password”;

In the line that appears, enter your phone number and click “Next”.

Then write your last name indicated in the account;

Click on “Get code”.

In the new window, enter the code that will be sent to your phone.

Next, you can create new login information.

Please note that you can link the page to another phone number if for some reason you can no longer use the old one.

Browser Mozilla Firefox

In the "fire fox" the password under the dots is also easy to find out, for this:

Right-click on the password field and select “Inspect Element”, the “Code Inspector” will open.
Look at your password in the code “ input ... value =”this is your password””
Or change “type=” password ”” to “type=” text ””

If the console does not focus on the line, then click not on the input field itself, but directly on the border of the field.

Creating a twin site

If the information could not be found out, then you can create a duplicate account with an exact repetition of the basic information, but with different login information.

Important: on the Internet you can find many applications that allow you to cope with such a task as finding out the login and password of someone else’s VK page to log in. In fact, this is just a beautiful bait for scammers.

Uniqueness is the key to reliability

The uniqueness of a hash is one of its key properties, which determines the cryptographic strength of the encryption system. The fact is that the number of possible password options is theoretically infinite, but the number of hashes is always finite, albeit very large. The digests of any hash function will be unique only to a certain extent. Powers of two, to be precise. For example, the CRC32 algorithm produces a set of only 232 options, and it is difficult to avoid repetition. Most other functions use 128-bit or 160-bit digests, which dramatically increases the number of unique hashes to 2128 and 2160, respectively.

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Strictly speaking, hash functions in cryptography are subject to higher requirements than round-robin checksums. However, in practice these concepts are often used as synonyms.

The coincidence of hashes from different source data (including passwords) is called a collision. It can be random (found on large amounts of data) or pseudo-random - used for attack purposes. The collision effect is the basis for hacking various cryptographic systems - in particular, authorization protocols. All of them first calculate the hash of the entered password or key, and then transmit this digest for comparison, often mixing in a portion of pseudo-random data at some stage, or using additional encryption algorithms to enhance security. The passwords themselves are not stored anywhere: only their digests are transmitted and compared. The important thing here is that after hashing absolutely any passwords with the same function, the output will always be a digest of the same and previously known size.

How to do this from your phone?

In a similar way, this can be done through system functions; then we will tell you how to find out your VK password on an Android phone. To do this you need:

First, go to your browser settings;

Select “Saved Passwords”;

Find the site you are looking for;
Next to the stars, click on the desired icon (it looks like an eye).

To avoid such problems, remember your login information or store it in a notebook. Don’t know how to find out the password for VKontakte if the page is open? To do this, you need to go to the settings of the social network, find the line with asterisks and see when the last changes were made. This may help you remember personal information.

How to open a password under asterisks in a browser (method 2)

Another way to view saved passwords in your browser is in the settings of a specific browser.

In Google Chrome browser:

Click on the “Customize and manage Google Chrome” button (the button is located in the upper right corner of the program window). Select "Settings", then click on "Advanced".
In the “Passwords and Forms” section, in the “Password Settings” option, click on the arrow button. Sites with saved passwords are displayed here.
Opposite the name of the desired site, click on the “Show password” button, and then copy the password.

In the Mozilla Firefox browser:

Click on the “Open menu” button, select “Settings” in the context menu.
Open the "Security and Privacy" tab.
In the “Forms and Passwords” section, click on the “Saved logins...” button.
Click on the “Display Passwords” button and copy the desired password.

In Yandex.Browser:

Click on the “Yandex Browser Settings” button, select the “Settings” context menu item. Scroll down the page, click on the “Show advanced settings” button.
In the “Passwords and Forms” section, in the “Offer to save passwords for sites” settings item, click on the “Manage Passwords” button.
Find the desired site in the list of sites with saved passwords, click on the dots in the field to display the password. The “Show” button will be highlighted.
Click on the “Show” button, after which the passwords under the dots will open. Copy the password for later use on another device.

In the Opera browser:

Enter the “Menu”, click on the “Settings” context menu item.
Select the "Security" section.
In the “Passwords” setting, click on the “Show all passwords” button.
Move the mouse cursor over the desired password and the “Show” button will appear. Click on the button, copy the password.

To display the saved password in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge browsers, for security purposes, you will need to enter the password for verification. Unfortunately, we don't remember him. Therefore, this method will not work for us in these browsers.

Viewing passwords in other programs

The browser is far from the only program that saves passwords. If you need to view the saved password in your FTP client or other program, then you need to resort to using third-party programs.

To view the password under asterisks in other programs, you can use the pwdcrack program. This program is completely free and can be downloaded from https://www.amlpages.com/pwdcrack.shtml.

To use this program, you need to click on the “Enable” button and hover over the password field. After this, the pwdcrack program will display the password you need.

It works like this:

You open a website that requires registration.
Enter your login information in your profile.
The browser prompts you to save the entered information - you agree.

Cloud Front Soldiers

1. The “Hash Killer” project has existed for almost eight years. It helps to break MD5, SHA-160 and NTLM digests. The current number of known couples is 43.7 million. You can upload several hashes to the site at once for parallel analysis. Passwords containing Cyrillic and characters from alphabets other than English are sometimes found, but displayed in the wrong encoding. There is also an ongoing competition for cracking passwords using their hashes, and utilities are available to make this task easier - for example, programs for merging lists of passwords, reformatting them, and eliminating repetitions.

HashKiller is not friendly with Cyrillic, but knows Cyrillic passwords

“Hash Killer” found three out of five passwords in half a second

2. “Crack station” supports working with hashes of almost all actually used types. LM, NTLM, MySQL 4.1+, MD2/4/5 + MD5-half, SHA-160/224/256/384/512, ripeMD160 and Whirlpool. You can download up to ten hashes for analysis at a time. The search is carried out using an indexed database. For MD5, its volume is 15 million pairs (about 190 GB) and approximately another 1.5 million for each other hash function.

"Crack station" finds many dictionary passwords even using NTLM hashes

According to the creators, the database includes all words from the English version of Wikipedia and most popular passwords collected from public lists. Among them there are also tricky options with changing the register, litspeak, repeating characters, mirroring and other tricks. However, random passwords of even five characters become a problem - in my test, half of them were not found even using LM hashes.

“Crack station” has difficulty cracking random passwords of five characters or more, even using LM hashes

3. CloudCracker.net is a free service for instantly searching passwords using MD5 and SHA-1 hashes. The digest type is determined automatically by its length. So far, CloudCracker only matches hashes of some English words and common passwords, like admin123. It does not even recover short passwords from random character sets like D358 using the MD5 digest.

Cloud Cracker instantly finds dictionary passwords using their hashes

4. The MD5Decode.com service contains a database of passwords for which MD5 values are known. It also shows all other hashes corresponding to the found password: MD2, MD4, SHA (160–512), RIPEMD (128–320), Whirlpool-128, Tiger (128–192 in 3–4 passes), Snefru-256, GOST , Adler-32, CRC32, CRC32b, FNV (132/164), JOAAT 8, HAVAL (128–256 in 3–5 passes). If the number of passes is not specified, the function calculates the hash in one pass.

There is no search feature on the site yet, but the password or its hash can be written directly in the address bar of the browser by adding it after the site address and the /encrypt/ prefix.

The MD5Decode service knows all types of dictionary password hashes

5. A project with the self-explanatory name MD5Decrypt.org also allows you to find a match only between a password and its MD5 hash. But it has its own database of 10 million pairs and an automatic search in 23 databases of friendly sites. The site also has a hash calculator for calculating digests from the entered message using the MD4, MD5 and SHA-1 algorithms.

MD5Decrypt finds compound dictionary passwords, but only accepts one hash for analysis

Another site, MD5Lab.com, was hosted by CloudFare in San Francisco. It’s still inconvenient to search on it, although the database is growing quite quickly. Just take note.

Looking for hashes on Google

Not all services are ready to provide the service of searching passwords using hashes for free. Somewhere registration is required and a ton of advertising is running, and on many sites you can also find advertisements for a paid hacking service. Some of them actually use powerful clusters and load them, putting the sent hashes into the job queue, but there are also ordinary scoundrels. They perform free searches for money, taking advantage of the ignorance of potential clients.

Instead of advertising honest services here, I will suggest using a different approach - finding hash-password pairs in popular search engines. Their spider robots comb the web every day and collect new data, including the latest entries from rainbow tables.

So to get started, just write the hash in the Google search bar. If some dictionary password corresponds to it, then it will (as a rule) appear among the search results already on the first page. Single hashes can be Googled manually, but large lists will be more conveniently processed using the BozoCrack script.

Method No. 3: using special utilities

Desktop special utilities display hidden fields not only in browsers, but also in programs. The contents of the specified rows appear directly in the form or in the viewer interface.

Below are the most popular solutions.

Password Cracker

A tiny tool. Opens data in rows automatically after hovering the cursor (data appears in an additional panel).

Can remove “masks” in Internet Explorer.

Hidden Passwords Viewer

Reads all passwords every 3 seconds and displays them in a separate window. But it can also remove asterisks in individual lines by hovering the cursor.

It has proven itself to be excellent in working with FTP connection configuration panels in the Total Commander file manager.

BulletsPassView

An improved version of the once very popular Open Pass program.

Automatically finds hidden fields in forms. Comes in two versions for 32- and 64-bit architectures. Does not require installation into the system.

Successful recovery of hidden data!

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Searching for VK profile data via software

Regardless of the Internet browser settings, it always stores combinations of letters and numbers entered once on any site. This rule applies to the entire PC.

However, there is no simple folder with this information on the hard drive. But there are a number of programs and utilities to solve this problem. If all the above methods do not suit you, you can try using one of the following programs:

WebBrowserPassView is a browser extension that can find all possible keys used in a given Internet browser;
PasswdFinder is a program that can extract all possible codes entered on a PC;
Multi Password Recovery Portable is a program that does not require installation on your computer, but is still capable of extracting all codes entered once on it.

You should use these programs very carefully, download only from a reliable source and under antivirus protection. It doesn't hurt to read reviews before downloading.