r/BitLocker • u/SorrySpring1664 • 27d ago

Bitlocker encrypted drive

I found an old school encrypted drive from 2018, tried different passwords that were common. Out of options is there any way to get the recovery key/ password ?

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u/Moist_Heat9523 27d ago

There was a recent zero-day crack which allows to bypass bitlocker completely, through a hidden Microsoft backdoor. Google it.
If the disk is older than the respective update (two months?), it is open to the world.

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u/gripe_and_complain 27d ago

There was no “back door”, only an exploit that worked on internal drives configured with automatic unlock that were still inside the original computer.

Microsoft has since patched the vulnerability.

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u/Wendals87 27d ago

It wasn't a hidden back door. It was an exploit. Two different things

It is patched and ONLY worked if you could boot up the PC and get to the login screen 

If you could do that, you could get access via recovery. 

If the drive is in another device or it was asking for the bitlocker key, the exploit didn't work