Welcome learners, lets us proceed further with the information we already have. In this post we will explore more about finding hacked accounts online. We will look into how to find juicy info in pastes which are deleted on Pastebin.
If you have not yet read previous posts please read following:
How to Find Hacked Accounts Online ~ PART 1 - haveibeenpwned « Null Byte
You must have read news about hackers dumping the data online, recent one was Ashely Madison. It's only the big companies' data, which gets noticed once it is out. There are many other small leaks which don't even get a mention. So this article is the first one of my series which will help you to find hacked accounts. Some of you must already know about this, but this post is intended for the new learners. This also serves as an example of my learning how a good service can be used in other ways it is not intended to. NOTE: Please note that this article is for information purposes only and
How to Find Hacked Accounts Online ~ PART 2 - pastebin « Null Byte
This is second post in my series of posts for finding hacked accounts online. Please do read the part 1 of the post at https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/find-hacked-accounts-online-part-1-0164611/ In this post we will explore more about finding hacked accounts online, what to look for in pastes, discarding pastes which are not useful, testing sample from pastes, and more. Please note practice is the key here. The more you do it the more successful you will be in finding what you are looking for. Below is the method that I follow when I go looking for information. Overtime and with
Step 1: Accessing Deleted or Private Pastebin Pages
While accessing some of the links from haveibeenpawned you might notice that the linked page no longer exists on pastebin. Instead you'll just get a message 'This Paste was removed' OR 'this is a private paste'. Let's follow through how to still access the hidden data that is out there.
Google Is There for Help!
So you have reached a deleted page. Now think why the page was deleted? Maybe there is something really juicy in there which they did not want the world to see. Yes, we got the boost we need. Let's use google to help us retrieve the page contents that were deleted. Google robots/spiders keep tracking each and every page on the internet and chances are they already have cached data when the page was accessible. To get the details, simply add cache: before the URL in address bar and press enter. Voila, you now have access to the page that was deleted.
Step 2: Speed Up by Saving It as Bookmarklet
Just add a new bookmark in your browser and in the location field copy paste the following code:
javascript:(function()%7Blocation.href%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwebcache.googleusercontent.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3A'%2Bwindow.location.href%7D)()
Now when you reach a deleted page, just click the bookmarklet and you'll automatically be redirected to the cached version of the page.
BONUS: This Trick Works on Other Pages Too
You can use this bookmarklet to view any cached pages and not just pastebin ones.
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This trick only works if google has cached the page before it went private or was deleted. So I don't know if this is really usefull. Most pastes go on private right away but maybe you can recover some deleted pastes.
Well that is true, but this works for me 90% of the time, I rarely seen 404 on google caches.
Is it a kind of google dork query? That bookmark works, but sometimes it redirects me to a URL like this :
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:data:text/html,chromewebdata
Does "window.location.href" go wrong on that page?
And thanks for your sharing.
Thanks for the praise! I never encountered this issue myself. I wrote that myself, here is one other version I found online, https://ostermiller.org/bookmarklets/cache.html Hope this helps.
I just find out this problem, which may cause by ISP not giving me the content I request.I just modified your code like this:
javascript:(function()%7Bvar crurl;if(window.location.href=='data:text/html,chromewebdata') { crurl=document.title.match(/(^ %2A)/).pop();}else{crurl= document.location.href;};location.href%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwebcache.googleusercontent.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3A'%2Bcrurl%7D)()
The link I got this answer:
https://www.quora.com/Web-Browsers/How-do-I-get-the-content-of-a-URL-bar-when-a-net-error-occurs
Thanks for improving this, much appreciated!
anything deleted from pastebin will be present on psbdmp, dumpmon, etc.
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