# Data and Credential Loss When you forget that fancy password that you made up thinking you'd always remember, or discard that [old hard drive on accident](https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/man-lost-127-million-worth-of-bitcoins-and-city-wont-let-him-look.html), you may lose access to the keys that control your cryptocurrency. This is another psychologically painful way to lose cryptocurrency, as there is the tantalizing possibility that the keys can be recovered if only the missing data is remembered or found. There are expensive [hypnotists](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/12/this-hypnotist-helps-people-recover-lost-bitcoin-passwords.html) that specialize in helping desperate people recover forgotten passphrases. **Mitigation:** * Redundancy: avoid any single point of failure. Forgetting one passphrase should not make a wallet unrecoverable. * Have a backup recovery plan. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.casa.io/wealth-security-protocol/threat-overview/data-and-credential-loss.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.