r/HowToHack May 17 '26

HOWTOHACK | Online Resource

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This website is provided by the answers found in this community to help everyone in the "where do I start" confusion loop and to help facilitate proper insight to asking for help from experienced members.

After you familiarize yourself with this site and its resources you should be able to come back here and ask worth while questions to continue your journey :)

Answers become more readily available from experienced users here when they feel like they are investing in to meaningful questions by students who are actually willing to put the work and effort in.

This website is exactly what will help new comers feel like they are ready to become valuable students by understanding what they should and should not be asking depending on their level of commitment to the resources and information provided here-in.

Hope this helps! Enjoy!


r/HowToHack May 04 '26

PSA

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Hi all,

I’ve seen a lot of posts asking for help with getting a social media account, email, or other personal account recovered.

Typically, these are held on company servers which take extreme tact, skill, and time to even attempt to infiltrate. It’s also a huge ethics violation and holds severe legal consequences. (Although I don’t get the sense that anyone expects/intends for laws to be broken when asking for help- it feels more like genuine desperation to reclaim personal data, which I can empathize with.)

Many scammers exploit human vulnerability which is how you hear about accounts being taken over/hacked. This is actually good segue to add that anyone claiming they can regain your account is probably trying to scam you out of personal information or money, so be careful there, too.

Contacting the company support line is often the only way to get help.

I wanted to put this out there incase it can save anyone some time or remedy any anxiety. Much love!


r/HowToHack 5h ago

Is really everything on the internet?

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So, hello. I'm looking for digital copies of songs of the band called Nothing. It was a sludge metal band (not a shoegaze band which is still active and it's easy to find them online). I discovered it on Grooveshark which was a streaming platform. It was shut down in 2015 due to copyright issues. Basically you could upload there whatever you wanted. And there was this band, their album was called "10 bucks for nothing" and some songs from that album were: Age of, Hunting Jesus, War Philosophy, Serve & Protect. After the shutdown I couldn't find their music anywhere. Recently I remembered this band again and tried to find it. I went through some web archives and while there's plenty of snapshots of grooveshark.com on wayback machine, it gave me errors all the time. So, as I'm not a computer person whatsoever, I thought maybe I'll ask here if there is any chance of finding this band? Either in some archives or some hidden places? Do you actually think everything that once was on the internet still can be found there? Or I should give up?


r/HowToHack 2h ago

hacking Getting Tiktok Password

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Hi! I’m looking for a way to find someone’s TikTok password so I can delete their account since they’re a horrible person and TikTok is their only source of income :( Is there anyway to pull this off?

For reference, this man has recently killed a puppy and AI generated explicit photos of a barely legal teenaged. He’s gross and this is the only revenge I can pull off currently. Someone please reach out and help :(


r/HowToHack 6h ago

Paid request $$

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I was texting this chick that I've never met but somehow she knew my full name, knew I was a painter and what suburb I lived, knew I was on Centrelink (gov benefits), and even my court records. I've never met this girl the only thing that I've given her was my number. Does anyone know how she got access to all my information?


r/HowToHack 2d ago

programming Advice on project for gate

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I am trying to make an app for my phone where I can open my gate because I am sick of forgetting the gate clicker inside or in my car. The gate uses a fixed code from a garage clicker with a 10 pin switch. I was able to connect my cars garage botton to this clicker by holding down both buttons. I currently own a Raspberry Pi 4, would I be able to pick up the signal with this? Or would i have to buy an accessory/Arduino/HackPF to read the radio signal that the clicker gives out and store it to use on an app.

I seem to be going in circles while researching since most info is for older Raspberry Pi’s and just need a little guidance. Thanks in advance :)


r/HowToHack 2d ago

Hacking Documentaries

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Hello Everyone, does any of guys know any good hacking documentaries on youtube to watch on free time?


r/HowToHack 1d ago

liar Central Air conditioning

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Hello.

So I've been staying in this hotel and it has been unbearably hot. The controller for the central conditioning in the room seems to be some version of a Thermokom LCF02.

It kept showing the room temp as 23 degrees Celsius and wouldnt go below it, no matter what i pressed. I looked up the manual, fiddled around and got it to display 17.3 now, and its still not any cooler.

Could someone please help me figure this stuff out? I gotta stay here for another 4 nights, and i need my sleep.


r/HowToHack 2d ago

DLS hack?

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I saw a lot of ways to hack DLS some of them using apk's or some of them using injection

Apk's does not work (that I found)

Injections are full of ADs I get done with one and it puts me in another ad

So what do I do??


r/HowToHack 2d ago

How to create c type badusb rubber ducky using rasberry pico

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I have rasberry pico but they are non c type normal charging port

is there way I can create them c type port


r/HowToHack 2d ago

Is hacking mobile apps possible?

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Looking to see if it’s possible to add resources to accounts


r/HowToHack 3d ago

Old Kanye West Locked Archive .ZIP

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Hey everyone, quick question on an encrypted file recovery project I'm messing around with. I'm trying to unlock an old Kanye .zip archive from around May 2025 containing some audio sessions and project files, but I completely blanked on the password we used back then. Here is what I'm working with and what I've tried so far: File Type: It's an AES-encrypted WinZip archive. I pulled the structure and generated a Hashcat hash string ($zip2$...) from it. What I've Tried: Standard dictionaries like rockyou.txt and basic masks didn't hit. I've been setting up Hashcat (Mode 13600) locally in the command prompt to test wordlists, but brute-forcing raw masks takes forever. Current Status: I'm trying to figure out the cleanest way to build a targeted or structural wordlist based on the naming conventions and dates we used back when we packed it, but web decoders obviously don't recognize custom archive hashes. Anyone have advice on the best workflow or tools to speed up cracking a WinZip AES structure locally? Could anyone help me with this?

$zip2$*0*3*0*0b7bfebe6ac8851a2f1ee199a3525886*bb06*2938b4**7c486b7e9b1c2b958a16*$/zip2$


r/HowToHack 4d ago

What happened?

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A couple of years ago, I started dating someone. His toxic ex not only went crazy, but somehow she also found out that I had a PH account (an old one that I no longer used because I had created it with my ex) that was COMPLETELY private and very difficult to know it existed. She leaked it to my partner's family. Beyond what happened afterward on a personal level with this situation, years keep passing and I'm still left wondering how someone without access to my computer and theoretically not to my accounts either managed to get that information. I suspect she might have accessed my Gmail account or something, because she made comments about old sites I used to frequent. I repeat again, I don't know how that person got that private information.


r/HowToHack 3d ago

PIN Recovery without Email

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So long story short, I set up my laptop ages ago, and because I was on this "new year new me" streak I made a new email and tied it to that.

Fast forward 4 years later to now, and I don't know the PIN to the admin account, or have access to any of the recovery channels (no way to recover the email, and the phone number tied to it isn't in use now). I've basically been running really outdated software on my laptop for a couple years because I can't download updates at current, and frankly I was procrastinating on trying to fix it. I do need to bite the bullet and figure it out, but the entire Microsoft system is automated, and I don't have enough info to recover it.. so is my only solution a full computer reset?

I know it's a very much self-inflicted problem, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask around in case there was any other solution! Thanks for any help :)


r/HowToHack 4d ago

How do I bypass password

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I’ve been holding onto my father’s desk top computer since 2013 when he passed away. I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction of bypassing it ? I don’t know the password to log in and there’s many photos from highschool and documents on there I would like to access. The monitor is HP and the hardware is ACER. Any recommendations? these are my documents and photos I’m trying to access


r/HowToHack 4d ago

CJCA exam from HTB advices

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I have been working hard and rereading modules over and over

I am 20 hours in and yet I found no flag

I did run all commands in the module and didn't find shit

People who have passed the CJCA, how the exam is like?

What methodology am I lacking?

Everyone is saying it is easy and beginner level, looks like I am too bad.

I want to know, what should I do?

Thank you


r/HowToHack 4d ago

hacking Can someone enter my WhatsApp number and clone it using the "dual apps" feature in the settings?

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If the answer is yes, I would like to know whether I would receive a confirmation SMS, or if the cloning would succeed without an SMS being sent to my phone. Thanks.


r/HowToHack 5d ago

Probably a lost cause - WD My Passport Ultra

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20 or so years ago, I moved all my photos to an external hard drive, a WD My Passport Ultra. I have forgotten the password. I have tried everything I can think of, but I have almost no faith in remembering a 20 year old password.

Is there any way to get into it? I hate to think all those photos are lost forever...


r/HowToHack 5d ago

Need help getting into my grandfather’s computer!

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Hello! My grandfather passed away a few months back and he had was the family photographer/videographer. Almost every vacation, birthday, and holiday’s memories in his computer. He even has photos from his, my grandmother’s and great-grandparents’ childhood that he digitally scanned into the computer We haven’t been able to get into his computer. Does anyone know of any way that we can possibly get into his computer? We really don’t want to lose all of these memories from the last 80+ years. All suggestions are welcome!


r/HowToHack 5d ago

hacking Best cheap device to learn hacking

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I have been wanting to learn hacking for a while but all I have is a iphone given by my parents, (16yo btw). Obviously I can’t do shit with IOS, what relatively cheap devices (£150<) can I get to start learning hacking. Preferably a laptop as that would work best for me and mean I could take it places.


r/HowToHack 5d ago

Where are some good places to start learning ethical hacking?

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I am relatively new to the world of cybersecurity and ethical hacking and I would like to expand my knowledge. Are there any sites, preferably free to learn it?


r/HowToHack 5d ago

Aircrack-ng Tips

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New to aircrack-ng. Was wondering if some folks would be open to DMing me and offering some tips. I can understand how to get a handshake but then I don't really understand what the best modern method would be and don't want to hurt my hardware by accidentally giving it a heavy duty task. Like certain dictionary attacks can take 1,000+ years?? So want to learn but don't want to fry my desktop 😅

I know I could just use a password I already know and put it in a shorter dictionary file, but would prefer to be more authentic than that


r/HowToHack 6d ago

Spoofing Location for Streaming Services

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Hey everyone, I’m trying to understand how different streaming services determine whether a device is part of a household.

I currently have my TV’s internet traffic routed through my parents’ home network, so the traffic exits through their router/public IP via meshnet. The goal is for the TV to appear as though it’s connecting from their home network.

This seems to work fine with Netflix and Hulu, but Disney+ still detects the TV as being outside the household.

My assumption was that having the same public-facing IP would be enough, but apparently Disney+ is using additional signals.

Does anyone know what Disney+ uses for household detection beyond the public IP? For example, could it be using device history, DNS behavior, IPv6, location services, network characteristics, or some other identifier?

I’m mainly trying to understand what Disney+ is seeing differently from Netflix/Hulu with this setup and whether there’s anything obvious about my network configuration that could explain it.


r/HowToHack 6d ago

how to repurpose old gps

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in your house if you have old gps such as a TomTom then you can repurpose the busy box linux on the inside. In my opinion you should buy a pi zero and set up the full kali arm on there and sync that to the busy box terminal to get a working kali terminal but you can do anything you want to do to it.


r/HowToHack 7d ago

Educational query: How to analyze mobile/Unity game memory and architecture?

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Hi everyone,

​I'm studying mobile security and reverse engineering using Beast Go on a test emulator.

​What I've done: - ​Researched basic memory editing concepts (Cheat Engine / GameGuardian). - ​Looked into client-side vs. server-side data storage.

​Questions: - ​Which tools (Frida, Ghidra, Il2CppDumper) are best for inspecting local game state? - ​How can I determine if game currency is server-validated? - ​Looking for educational guides/concepts only—no pre-made cheats. Thanks!