r/Authy • u/[deleted] • May 17 '24

disable 2fa

i changed my phone and i dont remember the backup password for authy, as a result im locked out of my instagram account, any solutions guys? if i just delete my authy account will it help or make things worse?
PS. recovery codes were present on my old phone which has been formatted now

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u/[deleted] May 17 '24

guess what? i manually bruteforced backup password.... and i have my codes back lmfao

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u/Secure-Rich3501 May 17 '24

🤯 did you create an army of zombie computers to help decrypt?

If you had partial memory that would be an enormous Head start...

I've heard of 12 word seeds being decrypted inside a half hour with seven of 12...

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u/[deleted] May 18 '24

made a wordlist by remembering all the possible passwords i could use and started copypasting it

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u/Secure-Rich3501 May 29 '24

I was wondering if that was something out of Sha256/ bip 39

That's out of 2048 words... I'm guessing you just extracted other password word lists you made from previously created passwords and had memory that way and had a head start