Passphrase unavailable — Armory (2025)

A 2025 recovery case involved an old Armory wallet from 2013 where the holder had set a passphrase they were certain they remembered but which consistently failed to decrypt the wallet. An analysis revealed that the wallet had been created on a Windows machine that had AutoCorrect enabled, and the passphrase contained a word that Windows had silently autocorrected to a capitalised version at the time of creation. The stored passphrase was therefore different from what the holder believed they had typed. Once the recovery specialist identified that the discrepancy was likely capitalisation-related, a targeted attack covering the most common autocorrect transformations for the remembered passphrase recovered the wallet within a few hours.