I've foolishly logged out from a Proton Pass account containing all my passwords and important notes. The password to the said account hasn't been stored anywhere else, it's a randomly generated string and the Proton account in question has no recovery method set up.
As I understand, even if I manage to prove to the Proton staff that I'm the owner of the account and they decide to reset the password, the stored data won't be accessible without the password last set up before the reset.
Before switching to Proton Pass I used to store all the passwords in the Google Chrome Password Manager. During the transition I've exported all of the passwords to a .CSV file. Since the switch, I've deleted all the passwords from the Google Password Manager as well as the .CSV file.
I still happen to have access to the said Google account. About a month ago I've requested a Google Takeout (download of all the data stored in the Google account). I still own a link to the file containing all the data, but unfortunately it's inactive. The said file has been deleted by me as well.
I wonder if there are any ways in which I can recover my lost Proton Pass password. I have following ideas which assume the Proton account password hasn't been changed since the migration (which I'm unsure of):
- Ask Google to restore the deleted passwords in the Password Manager.
- Ask Google to restore the deleted Google Takeout and hope the password is stored somewhere in there.
- Try to restore the deleted .CSV file from the phone or the PC.
- Try to restore the deleted Google Takeout and hope the password is somewhere in there.
I'm on the latest stable Debian.
I'm more than welcome to see any suggestions and ideas on how to alleviate my problem.
I'm fully aware I've failed miserably at making backups (and adding backup login options). As they say, there are people who do backups and those who haven't started yet.