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
    2020-06-17T11:06:36+00:00

    I am getting these several times a day - from the info iit looks like they might be coming from China, Iran and Russia.

    I am quite concerned that at some point they will succeed somehow and my essentials are exposed.

    I have 2FA + Authenticator App + my gmail email as backup email.

    What more can I do to ensure no one can get access to my precious content?

    Please lock down my account so only UK based logins are possible (i can use NordVPN to get to my fixed IP if i do need to access elsewhere)

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-17T10:31:18+00:00

    add me to this list, im getting at least 1 request daily to my gmail account.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-17T10:11:14+00:00

    +1,

    and it is accelerating, it happens every hour now, logging in from Vietnam, South Africa, Malaysia, China, i am concerned they are using brute force. Can't Microsoft block this? it is clearly disrupting many of us!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-17T10:00:57+00:00

    That's because you've logged in. Theirs very little reason to hide your own information from you.

    You could always turn the notifications off but that leaves you open to losing access to your accounts without great difficulty.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-17T09:10:51+00:00

    I actually discovered today, while double checking my security settings and changing my password, that the recovery email and recovery phone number are actually displayed on the settings page, they're not partially hidden at all. Which would explain why it's so easy to send reset codes. This is something that microsoft needs to fix ASAP.

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