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
    2020-05-21T15:07:18+00:00

    Same here, I got 2 reset emails those I didn't request in three days.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-21T20:01:48+00:00

    I checked my login attempts and people are trying to login from India, China and Vietnam ip addresses. It might be a mass email id leak that people are trying to take advantage of. 

    It's frustrating to keep reading these but these attempts have all been unsuccessful.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-21T20:11:30+00:00

    I've been receiving similar emails for the past couple of days. I've also got notifications at failed attempts by people trying to login with other accounts associated with my Hotmail account. They've been unsuccessful, but it's still a bit annoying and concerning. It is odd that other people are reporting the same, and it makes you wonder if there's been another data breach.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-05-30T13:16:19+00:00

    Just for clarification - this is happening to me as well but I suspect I know the reason it happens.

    The e-mail that's being attempted to be accessed has been compromised in the past - in fact, it's probably featured in multiple data leaks; the most probable cause for multiple people having this issue within a close interval is that there has been a newer leak of old data or that new organizations got access to old leaked data and are attempting to get access to those accounts.

    It's probably going through a list of thousands if not millions of addresses, so it probably tries X ways of getting in for each address for a few days and then moves on.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-05-30T13:37:45+00:00

    That is quite possible. I've noticed that these emails have stopped for me.

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