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
    2020-06-17T03:35:40+00:00

    I have the same issue.  Just this past week it seems to have started.  I've gotten roughly seven emails in the past day.  The requests are all coming from out of the country.  If we could select "Prevent login attempts from outside X location" it would help and prevent this issue.  The logins are coming mainly from China and Vietnam.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-17T08:30:25+00:00

    I'd like to add to this, i too have been getting a numerous amounts of password reset codes in emails to my recovery email account. Its getting rather annoying.

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