How to Recover Login Password of Instantbird Messenger

In this article, you’ll learn where Instantbird Messenger stores your login passwords, how they are protected, and how you can easily recover them.

Instantbird Messenger Password Secrets

Instantbird Messenger saves your login username and password in “signons.sqlite” file at following location

[Windows Vista/7/8/10]
C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Instantbird\Profiles\[random_name]\

[Windows XP/2003] 
C:\Documents and Settings\[user_name]\Application Data\Instantbird\Profiles\[random_name]\

This ‘signons.sqlite’ file is stored in SQLite database format and has table called “moz_logins” where each of the login password details are saved.

Here are some of the interesting fields stored in this table,

id - index of each entry
hostname - messenger type (im://prpl-gtalk)
encryptedUsername - encrypted username
encryptedPassword - encrypted password

Here encryptedUsername and encryptedPassword refers to encrypted username and encrypted password respectively.

Instantbird messenger uses Triple DES and SHA1 algorithm to encrypt both username & password. Finally the resulting password is stored in above file using Base64 format.

How to Recover Instantbird Messenger Passwords Automatically

Now you can easily recover all your forgotten login passwords of Instantbird Messenger without any technical knowledge.

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