About

Project purpose, scope, license, disclaimer, and credits.

HackBrowserData is an open-source CLI for authorized security research, incident response, and digital forensics. It began in 2020 as a practical way to inspect locally stored browser artifacts and has grown to cover twenty registered browsers, three operating systems, Chromium App-Bound Encryption on supported Windows builds, Firefox NSS, Safari, and cross-host Chromium recovery.

Support is intentionally explicit rather than universal: Chromium-based browsers and Firefox run on Windows, macOS, and Linux, while Safari support is macOS-only. See Supported Browsers for the exact matrix and How It Works for the extraction pipeline.

#Disclaimer & responsible use

Warning

This tool is intended for authorized security research, incident response, and digital forensics. Users are responsible for all legal and related liabilities arising from its use. The original author assumes no legal responsibility.

Use HackBrowserData only against systems and data you own or are explicitly authorized to access. Exports and transport archives may contain credentials, authenticated sessions, personal activity, and local filesystem paths; handle them under the engagement’s access-control and retention requirements.

#License

HackBrowserData is released under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2020 moonD4rk. See the LICENSE(opens in a new tab) file in the repository for the full text.

#Credits & links

• Author: moonD4rk(opens in a new tab)
• Contributors: GitHub contributor history(opens in a new tab)
• Source code: github.com/moond4rk/HackBrowserData(opens in a new tab)
• Releases: see the Installation guide
• Talks: presented at DEF CON Singapore 2026 and KCon 2024 — see Talks
• Community: part of the 404Team StarLink-Galaxy(opens in a new tab) program

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