When the install process was complete the window opened with the Electrum name, version and 1N8vh... number at the top. The only thing I remember doing is creating a password.
Is your computer second hand? Is there a chance this wallet file already existed on your device and when you installed Electrum it simply opened the already existing wallet? It's very strange behavior for malware, which would be much better off just letting you generate a wallet normally and stealing your seed phrase.
And did you not say above that you wrote down a seed phrase?
Private keys were mentioned earlier. In the Electrum file I have a list of about 30 private keys that look like this: "bc1......" : "p2wpkh : [numbers and letters]", Does the possibility exist the bc can be accessed by using these?
It's highly unlikely. The only thing I can think of would be to try the following:
- Take your list of 30 private keys
- Delete all the addresses and all of the "p2wpkh:" prefixes, so you are just left with a list of 30 raw private keys beginning with K or L
- Create a new Electrum wallet, and select "Import Bitcoin addresses or private keys"
- Paste in your list of 30 private keys
This will generate the corresponding legacy address (starting with "1") for each of your private keys. It's highly unlikely any of these are the 1N8vh... address in question, but it's the only possibility I can think of.