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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.
Managing personal Outlook.com account settings, security, and privacy
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I've been getting this for about a week now!
I have two accounts, Live & Hotmail..
My Live account keeps getting password reset attempts daily.
Are Microsoft reviewing these login attempts?
Are you seeing any unusual sign-in attempts under the security tab?
Add me to the list of getting inundated with password reset requests.
Getting on my nerves now!!!
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?
All of my attempts are also attempts to sync. There seem to be targeting a weakness in the cloud sync software.