Keep receiving a password reset email.

Anonymous
2020-05-14T17:51:44+00:00

Hi, 

I have been receiving an email about resetting my Microsoft password so far today i received 6 messages with the code to reset. This email has not been open in awhile, however i do have it linked to my phone for easy accessibility to emails.  How do i get the emails to stop.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-11T17:29:56+00:00

    I have been getting password reset about my Microsoft account for the pass week. When I check my account security I see several unsuccessful attempts that coming from Iran,Russia, etc. I added 2-step verification to my account to protect my account but still gets these email everyday.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-11T17:12:18+00:00

    Once i posted that i changed the address on this post i started getting them again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-11T16:33:42+00:00

    All of my attempts are also attempts to sync. There seem to be targeting a weakness in the cloud sync software.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-11T16:27:25+00:00

    UPDATE: My fix was to create a gmail account with a complicated name that only I know. I then set this as the recovery password email address for both my primary and secondary hotmail accounts. Now when the hackers try to reset my password, they don't know how to autocomplete the recovery email address e.g., *** Email address is removed for privacy ***. So hopefully I will not get a blizzard of emails with a password reset code, and if I do, it is going to an email address that I don't regularly check so it will be less irritating. The only downside to this is that it is crucial that I do not lose the login details to this new gmail account, in case I am the one that needs to change my hotmail passwords!!!

    What do you use as the recovery email address for the complicated name email? -- one of you original email addresses? What happens if hackers succeed in doing a password reset on the complicated name email?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-11T16:20:56+00:00

    Add me to the list of getting inundated with password reset requests. 

    Getting on my nerves now!!!

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