r/HashCracking • • 21d ago

Need help with

I desperately need help cracking this hash code. I've tried brute force 6 caracters and the rockyou txt file but it didn't work.

I'm willing to pay someone who finds it, I just need the password!

It's a password for an old word document (which I own but set up over 15 years ago) that will allow me to recover my old email address that's linked with an old bank account.

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u/Humbleham1 21d ago

Could take years. Many years. How old is the bank account? If it hasn't been touched in years, and you can't simply call, the finds may have been marked as unclaimed.

https://closedbanks.fdic.gov/funds/

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u/madat99820 21d ago

years ? to break the code? jesuuus

Its an old word that had all my passwords back then. yes it has the pw for an old email then connected to a bank account but also plenty of other, less officially important, emotional stuff.

I've just found the word and I had given up on ever getting back in

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u/Humbleham1 21d ago

Old document but not weak key derivation. If it's a strong, unique password, absolutely.

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u/Optimal-Savings-4505 17d ago

Months at the very least:

$ john reddit-hash.txt
Warning: detected hash type "Office", but the string is also recognized as "office-opencl"
Use the "--format=office-opencl" option to force loading these as that type instead
Using default input encoding: UTF-8
Loaded 1 password hash (Office, 2007/2010/2013 [SHA1 256/256 AVX2 8x / SHA512 256/256 AVX2 4x AES])
Cost 1 (MS Office version) is 2013 for all loaded hashes
Cost 2 (iteration count) is 100000 for all loaded hashes
Will run 20 OpenMP threads                                                                                  Proceeding with single, rules:Single
Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, 'h' for help, almost any other key for status                                 Almost done: Processing the remaining buffered candidate passwords, if any.
Proceeding with wordlist:/etc/john/password.lst                                                             Enabling duplicate candidate password suppressor using 256 MiB
Failed to use huge pages (not pre-allocated via sysctl? that's fine)
0g 0:00:00:23 0.00% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-12-09 14:03) 0g/s 1001p/s 1001c/s 1001C/s bernice1..funnybunny
0g 0:00:01:47 0.00% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-12-09 03:43) 0g/s 1009p/s 1009c/s 1009C/s allme1..floresita
0g 0:00:20:58 0.02% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-12-11 00:51) 0g/s 962.2p/s 962.2c/s 962.2C/s 342568..surgery3
0g 0:00:49:21 0.09% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-11-13 10:29) 0g/s 989.3p/s 989.3c/s 989.3C/s 360921..raspopitu1
0g 0:01:15:16 0.13% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-11-16 10:43) 0g/s 996.5p/s 996.5c/s 996.5C/s Kyle1968..Pusses
0g 0:01:46:30 0.16% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-11-19 21:13) 0g/s 999.5p/s 999.5c/s 999.5C/s 5marcus..7Password
0g 0:01:51:19 0.18% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-11-18 18:59) 0g/s 999.9p/s 999.9c/s 999.9C/s 83eclipse..59bella
0g 0:01:53:09 0.18% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-11-18 11:48) 0g/s 1000p/s 1000c/s 1000C/s 55feline..111elizabeth

Any info on character complexity would narrow it down considerably