How to Hack Wi-Fi Passwords By Kechfix

 

Windows Commands to Get the Key

This trick works to recover a Wi-Fi network password (or network security key) only if you've forgotten a previously used password.

It works because Windows creates a profile of every Wi-Fi network to which you connect. If you tell Windows to forget the network, it also forgets the password. In that case, this won't work. But few people ever explicitly do that.

Go to a Windows Command Prompt with administrative privileges. Click the Start Menu, type "cmd" (no quotes), and the menu will show a Command Prompt; right-click that entry and select Run as administrator. That'll open the black box full of text with the prompt inside—it's the line with a right-facing arrow at the end, probably something like C:\WINDOWS\system32\>. A blinking cursor will indicate where you type. Start with this:

netsh wlan show profile

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The results bring up a section called User Profiles—those are all the Wi-Fi networks (aka WLANs or wireless local area networks) you've accessed and saved. Pick the network you want the password for, highlight it, and copy it. At the prompt below, type the following, but replace the Xs with the network name you copied; you need the quotation marks only if the network name has spaces in it, as in "Cup o Joe Cafe."

netsh wlan show profile name="XXXXXXXX" key=clear

In the new data that comes up, look under Security Settings for the line Key Content. The word displayed is the Wi-Fi password or key you are missing. (If you don't like the command line, third-party password recovering software such as Cain & Abel or WirelessKeyView do the same thing.)

In macOS, open up the Spotlight search (Cmd+Space) and type Terminal to get the Mac equivalent of a command prompt. Type the following, replacing the Xs with the network name.

security find-generic-password -wa XXXXX