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
    2020-06-15T16:56:57+00:00

    Same here. Very annoying.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-15T15:00:59+00:00

    Snap. Checked my sign in attempts and loads of attempts happening (and failing) but have had three password reset email codes in the last 24 hours now

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-15T14:07:53+00:00

    What information needs to be entered in order to request a password reset?

    Would a hacker only need to enter the Hotmail address?

    Or does some other piece of personal information need to be entered.

    (I don't want to actually try it to find out.)

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-15T13:45:18+00:00

    Yes.

    Getting loads of Sync errors for multiple countries

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-15T12:20:09+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.

    Either it's a fresh leak from Hotmail or it's some app people would have signed up to in mass amounts lately that have had a leak such as zoom or something

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