Recovery guide · Software wallets

Atomic Wallet: lost password, missing words, broken vault

Atomic Wallet stores an encrypted vault on your device plus a standard 12-word BIP39 seed. If you have the seed, you don't need the app at all — any compatible wallet will restore your funds. The hard cases are forgotten passwords, partial seeds, and corrupted vault files after a reinstall.

Atomic Wallet suffered a major breach in June 2023. If your wallet was compromised then, recovery means tracing — not restoring. We can advise on what's realistic before you spend money chasing stolen funds.

The clean case: 12 words intact

Restore the same 12 words into a fresh Atomic install, Trust Wallet, Exodus, or any BIP39-compatible wallet. Verify balances on the relevant block explorers before sweeping anything.

Forgotten password, app still installed

The password decrypts the local vault — it isn't your seed. If the app still launches, the encrypted vault file lives in your OS user-data directory. Don't reinstall yet. We work from a copy of that file, run a targeted password-recovery pass using hints you remember, and recover the seed in place.

The hard cases we see

11 of 12 words, one unsure or smudged on paper.
All 12 words but checksum fails — a transcription error.
Right words, wrong order.
Forgotten password and no seed backup — we work from the encrypted vault.
App reinstalled, vault file deleted before the seed was saved.

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